{"id":36,"date":"2004-10-01T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/10\/01\/the-high-holy-days-in-europ"},"modified":"2004-10-01T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T19:30:41","slug":"the-high-holy-days-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jackstriptoeurope\/2004\/10\/01\/the-high-holy-days-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Holy Days in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The meditative
\ncharacter of this trip was definitely enhanced by the fact that we were
\ntraveling during the High Holidays, so I thought I would tell you about
\nour experiences observing them in Europe. <\/p>\n

\nWe observed the Rosh Hashanah services at the Main Synagogue in
\nRome.  It was a pretty interesting experience.  The Synagogue
\nis certainly the most beautiful one I have ever seen.  I’m not
\nsure what style it is, but it was very ornate while still avoiding
\nlooking like a church.  We had to go through security, of
\ncourse.  When we got there we thought, wow, this congregation is
\nreally quite small, a shell of its former self.  But by the end of
\nthe service, it was so crowded that no one could sit down; 8 or 9
\npeople were squeezed into our pew, which had only 6 seats. 
\nEveryone chattered away through the service, even through the
\nsermon.  There must have been at least 2000 people there
\ntotal.  When we left, the courtyard was filled with well-dressed
\nRoman Jews.  <\/p>\n

The best part was our conversation with Enzo Nahum.  He was
\noriginally from Venice and told us about the experience of the Roman
\nJews in the war and about the synagogue.  It was built in 1904 and
\nsurvived the war intact.  The story of how he survived the war was
\npretty interesting, but I just don’t have the heart to get into
\nit.  We were impressed with his knowledge of history and details
\nabout Italian Jewry, but one thing he said that sticks in my head
\nwas:  “The Jews can’t count on anyone but other Jews to protect
\nthemselves.” <\/p>\n

\nYom Kippur was an entirely different story, because we were in
\nKrakow.  Sara, Sara’s great friend Heidi, Heidi’s boyfriend Teria,
\nand I went over to the 500-year-old Remuh Synagogue, the only active
\nsynagogue in Krakow.  The service was led by one Rabbi Gluck, who
\ncomes in every year from Brooklyn, New York.  Ironically,
\nbringing him in gave the service an old world feel, because he sang
\nwith a heavy Yiddish accent.  (E.g., “Boiruch Atoi
\nAdoinoy”).  His prot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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