"... a welcome and unusual glimpse of the private side of one of East European Jewry's most influential public figures." --American Historical Review "... an absorbing ...

YIVO, founded in 1925, is a centre for scholarship on East European Jewish history, language and culture. This guide is a repository-level finding aid to the archives (over ...

Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world—an oversight that Gershon David ...

Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of ...

Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ...