Upon The Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe, Yesterday and Today
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Author(s)Ruth Ellen Gruber
PublisherWiley
ISBN / ASIN0471595683
ISBN-139780471595687
Sales Rank1,469,727
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.