Did an Orthodox girls’ movement and its legendary founder revive an ancient and obscure holiday in the forests of Poland?
Tunes from his childhood accompanied Yitzchak Freilich through the camps and on to his new life in America. Recorded by his son, they are now online as part of the National Library of Israel collection
30 years after his death, the Nobel laureate’s village is being rebuilt, including a massive replica of a synagogue that was never there
“He was like a character out of a book. He was like something somebody wrote.”
