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In 1928, he initiated a project known as the "Talmudic
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Deeply embedded in Odessa’s enlightened circles, Tchernowitz served as a minister to the faithful and the faithless—a traditionalist among iconoclasts, a rabbi of atheists and skeptics. In this capacity, he forged relationships with such intellectual and cultural luminaries as
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Birthpangs of redemption: a collection of articles on the struggle for rebirth of the state of Israel
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