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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944.(Book Review)

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| March 22, 2005 | Wertheimer, Andrew B. | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944. By Herman Kruk; edited and introduced by Benjamin Harshav; translated by Barbara Harshav. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2002. lii, 732 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-300-04494-1.

This book is a moving diary of one librarian caught in the Holocaust as well as a record of the final days of European Jewry. Before World War II its author, Herman Kruk (1897-1944), lived in Warsaw and directed the Kultur-lige's network of over 400 Yiddish people's libraries (Folksbibliotheken) in the Jewish Pale of Settlement. He was also active in the cultural branch of a…

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