Rabbi Peter Rubinstein, director of Jewish community at 92nd Street Y, envisioned the song as a way to bring together Jews around the world "to sing a new year song of hope."
As Holocaust survivors leave us, we can be thankful that their testimony has been recorded in hours of interviews and in memoirs. But in 1953, one of the first primary sources the American public digested was not in the pages of Night, but on prime-time television: It was the story of 32-year-old Hanna Bloch-Kohner, the […]