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“By reading this memoir and savoring its wisdom and lessons, perhaps we can assume a degree of [Joseph’s] burden and confer meaning upon it by sharing its insights with our children and grandchildren.”
Rabbi Joseph Polak is a “Dayan” (Rabbinical Court Judge), and serves as the Chief Justice of the Rabbinical Court of Massachusetts, which enacts religious divorces and conversions for the greater Boston Jewish community, and hears cases brought before it by people wishing to resolve family or business disputes through Jewish law. The court also adjudicates matters of family law for the family law court system of the State of Israel, and rules on moral and ethical questions including medical ethics. It is al
Rabbi Polak is a writer – his memoir, After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring , won a National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography. The book has received extraordinary critical acclaim, and is taught regularly in university courses on Holocaust literature alongside the works of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel.