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The World That Was 
Author: Rabbi Yitzchok Kasnett
Publisher: Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

A study of the life of Jews in the towns and villages of Hungary And Romania; Poland; Lithuania

Orthodox Orthodox

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Hungary - Romania $15.25
Poland $13.49
Lithuania $11.49


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Vol. 1: Hungary and Romania

A study of the life and Torah conciousness of Jews in the towns and villages of Transylvania, the Carpathian Mountains, and Budapest. Their verve, scholarship, piety, and goodness are seen through the eyes and words of the survivors.

  • Survival in the Budapest Ghetto
  • From Munkacs and Auschwitz to Peoria and NCSY
  • An eishes chayil in a slave labor camp
  • The rebirth of Satmar Chassidus in America
  • A thousand years of Jewish life in Hungary and Romania.

Vol. 2: Poland

The life and Torah consciousness of Jews in the shtetlach, towns, and cities of Poland. Through interviews, research, maps, pictures and charts, it conveys the life, inspiration, vitality, and achievements of pre-war Polish Jewry.

  • The Spiritual Climate in Poland Between the Two World Wars
  • The Jewish Industrial City in Poland: Lodz
  • Warsaw: A Microcosm of Polish Jewry
  • Oshpitzin: Family and Community Life (Rabbi Yosef Landau)
  • Remembering Ger, Chachmei Lublin and Survival in Russia (Mr. Mechoel Tenenbaum)
  • Remembering Lodz and the Holocaust (Reb Yosef Friedenson)
  • Piotrkov

Vol. 3: Lithuania

First-person accounts from such people as Rabbi Mordechai Gifter, Rabbi Nochum Zev Dessler, Rabbi Avigdor Miller, and Rebbetzin Zlota Ginsburg; histories of famous and little-known places, more than 100 photographs, stories, maps and statistics about the way it was and the people who shaped today's yeshivah world.

  • Mir
  • Telz
  • Vilna
  • Reflections on Telz and Lithuanian Torah Life (Rabbi Mordecai Gifter, Shlita)
  • Reflections on Slabodka (Rabbi Avigdor Miller, Shlita)
  • Remembering Kelm and Telz (Rabbi Nochum Zev Dessler, Shlita)
  • Remembering the Mir (Rebbetzin Ginsburg) 
 
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