Synopses & Reviews
A detailed description of the homes, synagogues and workplaces along with the practices and beliefs that comprised the Jewish world of Eastern Europe for hundreds of years until the Holocaust, including an intimate look at who and what remains today. Layers excerpts from oral histories, literary reflections and poems with the author's own interviews, research and photographs to form a rich, multi-dimensional tapestry of a vanished world.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and index.
Table of Contents
A Circle Game: The Golden City, Fame-Crowned Prague.
Wine Merchants and Wonder Rabbis: Northeastern Hungary to Southern Poland.
Synagogues Seeking Heaven: Looking for Lip?t Baumhorn.
What's to Be Done?
Cracow.
Snowbound in Auschwitz.
Notes.
Glossary.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.