Tag Archive for: Persecution

Isaac Ostrovsky, ‘This book is ours!’

Isaac Solomon Ostrovsky was born in 1902 in Tagancha, a town…

Rabbi Chil Slostovsky found a spring of fresh, cool water

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Rabbi Chil Slostovsky admonished his students to abhor Jesus.…

Joseph Zalman found his Saviour (1860-1924)

Joseph Zalman fled to the west and waited in Amsterdam for…

Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein, ‘I love Yeshua my Messiah’ (1824-1909)

How dare you? Isaac Lichtenstein was not quite twenty years…

Wainer, ‘Why would I believe in the God of the Gentiles?’ (1952-2013)

I was born into a traditional Jewish family. Although my parents…

Zvi Kalisher, ‘Was it God who was with us?’

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Henryk (later Zvi) Weichert was ten years old when the Germans…

Julius Paul Bloch was determined to be a good Jew (1816-1900)

On April 16th 1816, Simon and Zipporah Bloch became the proud…

John Moses Eppstein, studying the Talmud was his passion (1827-1903)

John Moses Levi was born of a Prussian couple. Soon after…

Leopold Cohn, the quest of a young rabbi (1862-1937)

Leopold Cohn was a promising young rabbi, who was willing…