Ben-Zion Gold ( – April 18, 2016)Obituary (Boston Globe), April 19, 2016 was an American rabbi who was the Rabbi of the Hillel at Harvard University from 1958 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1990.History of Harvard Hillel Retrieved April 20, 2016 Gold was born in 1923 in Radom, Poland, and is the only member of his family to have survived the Holocaust. He immigrated to the United States in 1947. He was a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary.Singer, scholar, rabbi is a man of many parts, By Ken Gewertz, Harvard Gazette, Sept. 28, 2000 60's CHAPLAINS REFLECT ON STUDENTS TODAY, By ARI L. GOLDMAN, New York Times, Published: April 12, 1987
Rabbi Gold's memoir of his childhood in pre-war Poland was widely admired.A Sad, Searching Soul, Reading Ben-Zion Gold’s achingly sad, uncommonly beautiful memoir of life in prewar Poland, By Allan Nadler, Forward, April 10, 2008
Books Tradition and Contemporary Reality (sermons and speeches), Puritan Press (Cambridge, MA), 1990 Rosh Hashanah: The Holiday of Creation. Messianic Delusions and Their Distortion of Our Tradition: Yom Kippur, 1994 The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir by Ben-Zion Gold, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 2007 Cisza przed burzą. Życie polskich Żydów przed Holokaustem (Polish edition), wyd. Austeria, Kraków - Budapeszt, 2011
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