Vilna SYNOPSIS
Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania," was the vibrant core of Eastern European Jewish life. It was the epicenter of rabbinical studies and religious debate, a base for the Haskalah, and prominent in the rise of the Mussar movement. Israel Cohen was writing Vilna in the late '30s when World War II was looming. When he finished the epilogue in 1943, Vilna's entire Jewish community had been either massacred or sent to the death camps.
FROM THE CRITICS
New York Times Book Review
The account of what Jewish life used to be...scholarly, informative and restrained in its emotional comment.
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