Vienna, March 1936. The bar mitzvah of Jacob Taubes in the synagogue on the Pazmanitengasse, one of the largest in Vienna, where his father is the rabbi. Jacob reads from the Torah and the Haftorah (the Pentateuch and the Prophets). His father addresses him, first in German and then in a Hebrew richly inflected with Biblical and Talmudic allusions. He reminds Jacob that he is the scion of a family of great distinction, going back centuries, with ancestors who include great masters of rabbinic law and Hasidic rebbes.
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