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Yiddishist Itche Goldberg dies |
| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: January 23, 2007 |
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The Jewish community in Rome celebrated on Monday with 77-year-old Samuel Modiano on the occasion of his Bar-Mitzvah.
Modiano, a member of the community, was born in Rhodes. Sixty-four years ago, at the age of 13, he was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp and was unable to celebrate his Bar-Mitzvah. Modiano lost 60 family members in the Holocaust.
On Monday, in the Great Synagogue of Rome and in the presence of hundreds of community members, he completed what he had missed as a result of the terrible events that he endured in his youth. "This is a wonderful example of the Jewish tradition beating in the heart of every Jewish person," said Rabbi Riccardo DiSegni, Chief Rabbi of Rome, at the end of the service. "The most touching moment was when Samuel exposed his arm to wrap the tefilin around it and uncovered the number tattoo."
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