Lost Synagogues of Europe: Paintings and Histories by Andrea Strongwater sync error Berger explores Wiesel’s Hasidic childhood

Berger explores Wiesel’s Hasidic childhood in Sighet

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before launching into the translated stories with contextual notes

In As a Jew

How to Become an American begins with an abandoned diary―and from there author Daniel Wolff examines the sweeping history of immigration into the United States through the experiences of one unnamed

Lost Synagogues of Europe: Paintings and Histories by Andrea Strongwater sync error Berger explores Wiesel’s Hasidic childhoodLost Synagogues of Europe chronicles and recreates in vivid color paintings the life stories of nearly 80 majesticand destroyedEuropean synagogues, each one a testament to the approximately 17,000 synagogues decimated during the Third Reich and early takeover of the Communist regimes. After World War II only about 3,300 buildings remained standing, and just more than 700 are still in use as synagogues. This exquisite and significant work of historical