Foreword Michael Buerk Introduction Naomi Gryn Hugo's Anecdotage Jewish Calendar Five Books of Moses The Prophets and other books of the Bible Loving your Neighbour and the Stranger Hugo's Spiritual Heroes and the Jewish World Second World War and the Holocaust Glossary and Biographies Bibliography Index Acknowledgments. Including more than 40 integrated photographs and additional tributes from Lionel Blue, Martin Gilbert, Maureen Lipman, Oliver McTernan, Al Matthews, Julia Neuberger, Roger Royle, Erich Segal and Tom Stoppard.
Collection of Hugo Gryn's scripts for radio 'God slots', bringing the wisdom and humanity of one of Britain's best-loved spiritual leaders to a new generation.
Naomi Gryn is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She
co-authored and edited Chasing Shadows (Viking, 2000).
Rabbi Hugo Gryn was born in the Carpathian town of Berehovo in 1930
and deported to Auschwitz at the age of thirteen. After the war, he
came to Britain with a group of child survivors and then went to
America to train for the rabbinate. His first pulpit was in Bombay.
Later he became rabbi at the West London Synagogue, a post he held
for thirty-two years until his death in 1996, and was the central
figure of British Reform Judaism.
Education and interfaith dialogue were his major concerns. He was
perhaps best known for his 'ministry of the airwaves', with
broadcasts on BBC Radios 2 & 4, and Capital Radio, and as a regular
panel member of BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze.
Extract reprinted in the Jewish Chronicle (UK) Friday 1st October
2010
'Gryn's daughter has compiled a fascinating, informative and often
moving anthology of her father's short broadcasts.'
*The Tablet*
'This book serves to champion the God Slot. It is a collection of
small pithy ‘sermonettes' that capture Hugo's erudite thinking but
also tell the story of his life, his family and the nation during
those 17 years or so of broadcasting... Hugo Gryn's memorable
reflections stand alone as an instructive, uplifting read '
*Jewish Quarterly*
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