Editing Sacha Pecaric

{{short description|Croatian born rabbi (born 1965)}}
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| name        = Rabbi Sacha Pecaric
| image       = Sacha Pecaric.jpg
| caption     = Pecaric in 1999
| birth_name  = 
| birth_date  = {{birth-date and age|May 5, 1965}}
| birth_place = [[Rijeka]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia]] (now [[Croatia]])
| death_date  =
| death_place = 
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| nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] Naturalized US
| occupation  = [[Rabbi]]
}}
'''Sacha Pecaric''' (born 1965 in [[Rijeka]]) is a [[Croatian Jews|Croatian]]-born [[rabbi]].

==Education and scholarship==
After studies in [[Prague]], Pecaric continued to study at the rabbinic department of the [[Yeshiva University]] in [[New York City]], where he obtained rabbinical ordination, and the Department of Philosophy of [[Columbia University]] (M.A.) and [[Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague|FAMU]] in Prague (Ph.D.). He lived in [[Kraków]] where he ran the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, aimed at providing education to the small local [[Jew]]ish community as well as other local people, and where he set up Pardes Lauder, a Jewish religious publishing house which has published more than 30 books, including a prayer book and [[Haggada]] for [[Passover]].<ref>[http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/2094,the-new-york-rabbi-sacha-pecaric-will-deliver-a-lecture/ "The New York Rabbi Sacha Pecaric will deliver a lecture"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627020900/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/2094,the-new-york-rabbi-sacha-pecaric-will-deliver-a-lecture/ |date=2013-06-27 }}, ''Virtual Shtetl'', January 4, 2012. Accessed November 9, 2012.</ref><ref name=jw>[http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/short_takes/gained_translation_sacred_texts_poles_0 "Gained In Translation: Sacred Texts For Poles"], Steve Lipman, ''[[The Jewish Week]]'', May 10, 2011. Accessed November 9, 2012.</ref>

Pecaric was the author of the first translation of the [[Torah]] from [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] to [[Polish language|Polish]] to be done by a Jew since the [[Second World War]]. His translation, made independently of existing Polish translations, includes &ndash; ''Bereshit'' ([[Book of Genesis|Genesis]], 2001), ''Shemot'' ([[Book of Exodus|Exodus]], 2003), ''Vajikra'' ([[Leviticus]], 2005) and ''Bemidbar'' ([[Book of Numbers|Numbers]], 2005) and ''Devarim'' ([[Deuteronomy|Deuteronomium]], 2006).<ref name=jw/>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.pardes.pl/index.html Pardes] (in Polish)

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[[Category:Rabbis from Kraków]]
[[Category:20th-century Croatian rabbis]]
[[Category:Modern Orthodox rabbis]]
[[Category:Polish Orthodox rabbis]]
[[Category:Translators of the Bible into Polish]]
[[Category:Yugoslav emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:Yugoslav expatriates in Czechoslovakia]]
[[Category:American emigrants to Poland]]
[[Category:Jewish translators of the Bible]]

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