Eulogies

The following three eulogies – by Rabbi Norman Janis, Rabbi Jonah Steinberg, and Jane Myers –  were given at Rabbi Gold’s funeral, April 20, 2016 – 12 Nisan 5776. Rabbi Norman Janis I first met Rabbi Gold in the spring of 1959.  We had both come to Harvard the previous fall – he as a…

A Belated Discovery

This past winter, on one bleak day, I happened to notice an old cassette tape on top of a small pile of cassettes on the floor next to my bookshelf in my study. Even from my desk chair across the small room, I noticed the title, “Nigunim and Folk Songs, Ben-Zion Gold,” and I recognized…