Walter Jacob, Pittsburgh rabbi who helped revive Reform Judaism in Germany, dies at 94
A refugee from Nazi Germany who returned to create a seminary for Liberal rabbis
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Yiddish איך פֿאָר קיין צורוגאַ, יאַפּאַן, וווּ מײַן טאַטע האָט זיך געראַטעוועט פֿון די נאַציסI travel to Tsuruga, Japan, where my father was saved from the Nazis
אַן אָרטיקער מוזיי גיט איבער רירנדיקע זכרונות פֿון יענע יאָרן מצד די ייִדישע פּליטים און יאַפּאַנישע אײַנוווינער
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