The Death of the Shtetl - Yehuda Bauer candlestick and heartbroken sibyl of exile

and heartbroken sibyl of exile

Harper Perennial Publishing 2007

Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the history of anti-Semitism

What emerges is a moving saga of a family devastated by the travails of the twentieth century and partly restored through the power of storytelling

The Death of the Shtetl - Yehuda Bauer candlestick and heartbroken sibyl of exileIn this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, describes the destruction of small Jewish townships, the shtetls, in what was the eastern part of Poland by the Nazis in 19411942. Bauer brings together all available documents, testimonies, and scholarship, including previously unpublished material from the Yad Vashem archives, pertaining to nine representative shtetls. In line with his belief that history is the story of