Return-Path: Delivered-To: alumni.princeton.edu%david90@alumni.princeton.edu Received: (cpmta 20192 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2001 22:18:27 -0700 Received: from pantano.theriver.com (205.216.137.2) by smtp.c007.snv.cp.net (209.228.33.204) with SMTP; 13 Sep 2001 22:18:27 -0700 X-Received: 14 Sep 2001 05:18:27 GMT Received: from lynnsaul (a19.pm3-22.theriver.com [208.164.96.179]) by pantano.theriver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 602B02AA0 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:51:44 -0700 (MST) From: "Lynn Saul" To: "'David Simon Bendory'" Subject: RE: No words to describe Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:51:07 -0700 Message-ID: <000c01c13cd8$de2edc20$b360a4d0@lynnsaul> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Status: U X-UIDL: O6GTI9HkIcxO4gE I am interested in your siddur recovery/republication project. First, my heart goes out to you and everyone else in NY involved in this terrible tragedy. What has been so striking to me about all this is how closely it ties in with our ancestor's experiences--as you said, this siddur had survived a pogrom... On Sunday, my mother had called and told me about seeing the film "American Rhapsody" and said I must see it, which I did that evening. The story of an infant lost in the escape from postwar, Communist Hungary, it paralleled stories of my family and so many others. On Tuesday morning she called me from the east coast and woke me up, saying in a terrified voice, "We're at war." The most painful thing for me about all this has been the connection with past wars, of families torn apart, of parents and children and brothers and sisters never seeing each other again, or of spending years looking for each other... Whatever you can preserve from the siddur will be a memorial to all of that, and a small piece of hope for shalom. I'll make a donation as soon as possible, probably not till after the holidays. Shanah Tovah. Lynn