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A world-class scholar and mensch is gone — we can't let his dream die with him

JL;DR SUMMARY Paul Mendes-Flohr, a preeminent scholar of German-Jewish intellectual history and the foremost expert on Martin Buber, passed away on Shemini Atzeret in 2023. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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