Upon The Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today

Type

Book

Authors

Ruth Ellen Gruber

ISBN 10

0471595683

ISBN 13

9780471595687

Tags

Germany, Travel, Social Sciences

Description

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. - from Amzon

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