The Heavens are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod by Avrom Bendavid-Val, Jonathan Safran Foer

The Heavens are Empty: Discovering the Lost Town of Trochenbrod

Avrom Bendavid-Val, Jonathan Safran Foer

nonfiction history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

256 pages | first published 2010

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In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of which are ingrained in popular imagination as the shtetl Anatevka from Fiddler on the Roof....
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