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| Monday, May 05, 2003 |
 Making of a Godol: In his book "Making of a Godol" Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky depicts ("often in biographies for the Orthodox market") the Lithuanian sages "wrestling with the lures of secular life." This two-volume book was published privately by Rabbi Kamenetsky in a limited edition of only 1,000 copies. The $40 copies are now being auctioned off for hundreds of dollars. For those of you dying to read it, the library at the Jewish Theological Seminary has acquired it. So has the library at Yeshiva University, though their copy is apparently sitting on a closed shelf. As the New York Times put it, "Jews should have learned long ago that there are dangers to us in suppressing books...when we start suppressing books, people will start suppressing our books."
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