Sacha Pecaric
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Sacha Pecaric (b. 1965 in Rijeka, Croatia) is a rabbi of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in Kraków.
After studies in Prague, Pecaric continued to study at the rabbinic department of the Yeshiva University in New York and the department of philosophy of the Columbia University. He has been living in Kraków since 1997 where he runs the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation aimed at providing education to the small local Jewish community as well as local Gentiles.
He is the author of what is probably the first translation of the Torah from Hebrew to Polish to be made by a Jew. His translation includes so far only the first two books of the Torah - Bereshit (Genesis) and Shemot (Exodus) and (Vajikra) Leviticus - and was made independently of existing Polish translations.