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YEHUDAH MIRSKY
Jerusalem Post
01-07-2005
Headline: Rav Kook's Latvia days
Byline: YEHUDAH MIRSKY
Edition; Up Front
Section: Opinion
Page: 21

Friday, January 7, 2005 -- Like most of us, I guess, Latvia has figured little in my life, other than as the source of the many Letts who regularly populate New York Times crossword puzzles.

Lithuania was, of course, a different story. The high Jewish intellectual life centered in Vilnius (in Yiddish, forever, "Vilna") and its tributaries was so rich in so many directions, traditional and modern alike, that to this day thousands of Jews, Talmudists ...

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