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It Sounds Better in the Aramaic: Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold Sings "Ya Ribon"
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Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, z"l, long-time Rabbi of the Harvard University Hillel, sings the Aramaic-language hymn Ya Ribon, and Jane Myers gives the translation in English.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Ben-Zion Gold.
This excerpt is in English and Yiddish.
Ben-Zion Gold was born in Radom, Poland in 1923. Ben-Zion died in 2016.