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The World That Was: Hungary And Romania A study of the life and Torah conciousness of Jews in the towns and villages of Transylvania, the Carpathian Mountains, and Budapest By Rabbi Yitzchok Kasnett (Author)  List Price: $16.99 Online Discount: 10% You Pay Only: $15.29 Catalog #: H-HUNP ISBN-10: 0963512099 ISBN-13: 9780963512093 Binding: Paperback / Pages: 276 Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches / Weight: 1.80 LBS Published: by Hebrew Academy of Cleveland In Stock?: YES Quantity:  1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950

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Mountains, and Budapest. Their verve, scholarship, piety, and goodness are seen through the eyes and words of the survivors. • Survival in the Budapest Ghetto • From Munkacs and Auschwitz to Peoria and NCSY • An eishes chayil in a slave labor camp • The rebirth of Satmar Chassidus in America • A thousand years of Jewish life in Hungary and Romania.

  

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Table of Contents

• Foreward
• Author's Preface
• Teacher's Guide / Introductory Studen Exercises
• An Overview: The History of Jewish Life in Hungary
• Hungarian Synagogues Through The Centuries
• An Overview: The History of Jewish Life in Romania
• Giants of the Spirit: Rabbonim of Transylvania and the Carpathians
• Budapest: War and Survival (Rabbi Gershon Weiss)
• Remembering Munkacs: "A Mother City of Israel" (Mr. Hershel Ostreicher)
• Ruscova: Remembering Life in the Carpathian Mountains (Mr. Chaim Eliezer Feig)
• Sighet: Remembrance of Life in Hungary (Mrs. Gizella Weisshaus)
• Portrait of a Hungarian Torah Personality (Rabbi Sender Deutsch, ZT"L)
• Vignettes of Divine Providence
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• The Student Guide
• Questions for The History of Jewish Life in Hungary
• Questions for The History of Jewish Life in Romania
• Questions for Interview with Rabbi Weiss - Survival in Budapest
• Questions for Interview with Mr. Ostreicher - Remembering Munkacs
• Questions for Interview with Mr. Feig - Ruscova: Life in the Carpathian Mountains
• Questions for Interview with Mrs. Weisshaus - Sighet: Remembrance of Life in Hungary
• Recommended Reading and Source Material