Ben-Zion Gold (
c. 1923 – April 18, 2016)[1] was an American
rabbi who was the Rabbi of the
Hillel at
Harvard University from 1958 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1990.[2] Gold was born in 1923 in
Radom, Poland, and is the only member of his family to have survived
the Holocaust. He immigrated to the United States in 1947. He was a graduate of the
Jewish Theological Seminary.[3][4]
Rabbi Gold's memoir of his childhood in pre-war Poland was widely admired.[5]
Books
Tradition and Contemporary Reality (sermons and speeches), Puritan Press (Cambridge, MA), 1990
The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir by Ben-Zion Gold, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 2007
Cisza przed burzą. Życie polskich Żydów przed Holokaustem (Polish edition), wyd. Austeria, Kraków - Budapeszt, 2011
^60's CHAPLAINS REFLECT ON STUDENTS TODAY, By ARI L. GOLDMAN, New York Times, Published: April 12, 1987
[1]
^A Sad, Searching Soul, Reading Ben-Zion Gold’s achingly sad, uncommonly beautiful memoir of life in prewar Poland, By Allan Nadler, Forward, April 10, 2008
[2]