Zerin, Edward, Rabbi

 Lecturers

Lectures on 17th – 20th century rabbinical Torah commentary (newly translated into English from the original Yiddish). Lectures on Chagall and the Russian Yiddish Theater. PowerPoint presentation of Jewish San Francisco: From the Gold Rush to Today. Has film of The Dybbuk: an opera sung in Yiddish and filmed in Israel.7

Retired rabbi, professor, and psychotherapist. Author of nine books, including The Birth of the Torah, three volumes of Living Judaism, and Jewish San Francisco: From the Gold Rush to Today, 101 Yiddish Gems: Translated from the Yiddish of 18th -20th century Eastern European rabbis. Translator for the National Yiddish Book Center. Award-winning photographer. Docent for Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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