Envoy from Vienna Uri Raskin and brought a spark of

and brought a spark of joy during the Holocaust

fervent avodas Hashem and uncompromising loyalty to the tradition of his holy forebears

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Envoy from Vienna Uri Raskin and brought a spark ofAfter a harrowing encounter with pirates at sea, Elisha Ringel travels to Vienna for the wedding of Mendele Strasbourg, the son of his good friend Rav Shloime Strasbourg, the rabbi of Pulichev. He finds the Jewish community prosperous, joyous and proud of its progress to preeminence in the Jewish world. But calamity looms on the horizon. The Queen of Spain has sent an urgent demand to the Emperor and Empress that they expel all the Jews from Vienna.