Alumni Alumnus’s Memoir A Man of Spirit Reflects on 58 Year Rabbinical Career

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Because of his love for all Jews in Israel, the former Soviet Union, in American prisons, the elderly and the poor and needy, and his concern about the revival of Nazism in the US, he has been a lifelong activist, rarely pausing in his 58-year rabbinical career.

– David Geffen, The Jerusalem Post

With his recent memoir A Man of Spirit: A Rabbi Navigates a Half-Century of Sweeping Change, Hebrew College alumnus Rabbi Dr. Barry Dov Schwartz reflects on his half-century as a rabbi, including his work in the Civil Rights Movement and his friendship with famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

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