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Julian Ungar-SargonThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
View over Vienna from the south tower of St. Stephen’s Cathedral. (Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0) My father spoke of Vienna,...
“The dead ask very little. Only that the ground be permitted to receive them.” The Zentralfriedhof is enormous, and the Jewish sections are at the...
III. The Synagogue My Grandfather Knew “A synagogue is not a building. It is a room in which a community agrees, weekly, to be addressed.” On the...
I. The River That Ignores Us Some journeys are measured in miles. This one was measured in sentences — my father’s, which I had been carrying,...