De l'Allemagne nazie à Jérusalem : à 102 ans, Walter Bingham danse à Sim'hat Torah
L'homme de la chaîne 7 Walter Bingham, qui fêtera bientôt ses 103 ans, se souvient comment la peur dans l'Allemagne nazie a poussé Sim'hat Torah dans la clandestinité. Cette année, à Jérusalem, il a dansé…
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Walter Bingham, a 102 year old man who fled Nazi Germany, danced on Simchat Torah in Jerusalem this year with a child roughly a century younger. His personal memory of celebrating the holiday in hiding under Nazi rule gives a concrete, lived dimension to a story that usually stays abstract. The image of him standing under a tallit with dozens of children connects a single human timeline to a much longer communal one, without needing to spell it out.