Keeping the Promise (PB)
Product Code: 9781580131186
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Description
The Torah—the sacred scriptures of the Jews—has traveled the world in the hands of its faithful adherents; and in this book it also travels into space, as one of the personal items taken aboard the space shuttle Columbia by Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. A miniature scroll, small enough to fit into a coat pocket, it began its journey in the possession of a Dutch Rabbi, Simon Dasburg. During the Nazi occupation of Holland, he smuggled it into the concentration camp to which he was deported. From him it moved into the possession of a thirteen-year-old boy at his clandestine Bar Mitzvah in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
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