Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler Dictionaries The first comprehensive biography of

The first comprehensive biography of Weegee―photographer

only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war—and then find each other again more than 70 years later

and translated from Yiddish

Rebecca Margolis shows that the city's vibrant Yiddish culture is the legacy of a driven group of the city's Jews who devoted themselves to the revitalization of the Jewish community

“More deli than deity” writer Nancy Kalikow Maxwell poses many such questions in eight chapters—“Worrying

Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler Dictionaries The first comprehensive biography ofHomes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the devastating knowledge that returning to