Nobel Laureate Isaac Singer shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War II.
The author describes his childhood as part of Warsaw’s Hasidic Jewish community in the early years of the twentieth century, through the First World War and into the 1930s before the German-led genocide (the Holocaust) destroyed their culture.
From his school days when his parents struggled with poverty in the ghetto through the divide between traditionalists and those determined to modernize their lives to the wars and fascist regimes that made them flee their home, Singer’s stories and Vishniac’s photographs recreate a world long gone but never forgotten.
Illustrated with photographs of Warsaw’s Jewish community by Roman Vishniac.
