En ingles

As promised, here is yesterday's entry in English. Enjoy!
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The Week of December 12th

Shabbat Shalom. This week, I have chosen to write about work-related experiences gained through the Fulbright Scholarship. During the first four months of the project, I have had the opportunity to learn more about various members of the community through interviews conducted in El Salvador, the United Status, and Israel.

My work facilitates a greater personal understanding of sensitive topics such as the Salvadoran Civil War, the Holocaust, the complex subject of identity and nation, and the daily life of the Jewish-Salvadoran community. It is an immense pleasure to share this information through the webpage or “blog” that I update on a daily basis: www.storylistener.blogspot.com. Through the webpage, one can learn about the lives of individuals such as the Sanders Family, Gerda Guttfreund, Inge Bernhard, the Meissner Family, Margot Liebes de Rosenberg, and Soeurette Joseph amongst many others.

It is crucial to understand the community’s history as it informs personal and collective decisions regarding the past, present, and future. A wealth of information exists in El Salvador which I am anxious to share. In order to make your reading even more entertaining, I invite you to answer the following questions:

1. Who spent various years in an African prison during WWII?
2. Who managed to escape the Nazis by hiding in a hospital’s
dirty linen basket?
3. Who travelled in a plane to El Salvador….along with a
few other passengers and one cow?
4. Who taught Hebrew to adults and children in the community
from (approximately) 1953-75?
5. Who can tell us stories about difficult years spent in
Siberia?

The answers to these questions will be published in next week’s Kehilaton as well as: www.storylistener.blogspot.com. LOOK OUT FOR THEM!!