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100 1 $aGruber, Ruth Ellen,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91058979
245 10 $aUpon the doorposts of thy house :$bJewish life in East-Central Europe, yesterday and today /$cRuth Ellen Gruber.
260 $aNew York :$bJ. Wiley,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $aix, 310 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-304) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Mezuzahs -- 1. A Circle Game: The Golden City, Fame-Crowned Prague -- 2. Wine Merchants and Wonder Rabbis Northeastern Hungary to Southern Poland -- 3. Synagogues Seeking Heaven: Looking for Lipot Baumhorn -- 4. What's to Be Done? Cracow -- 5. Snowbound in Auschwitz.
520 $aThroughout East-Central Europe today, ghostly outlines linger where mezuzahs once hung in the doorways of Jewish homes. Buried under layers of fresh paint, those pale scars bear eloquent testimony to a once rich and vibrant culture and its near-total extinction.
520 8 $aIn Upon the Doorposts of Thy House, journalist and photographer Ruth Gruber returns to the heartland of East-Central European Jewry to rediscover the homes and synagogues, workplaces and cemeteries, heroes and common folk, practices and beliefs that flourished in that world for more than fifteen hundred years before the Holocaust.
520 8 $aSteeped in painstaking research into her East-Central European Jewish heritage, Gruber writes in a style that is both meditative and crisply informative. She brings together a wealth of insight and information from myth and folklore, rare documents, contemporary interviews, literary sources, family histories, and personal letters to re-create a lost era.
520 8 $aGruber journeyed to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary to seek out and explore places where Jews once lived - from shtetl to metropolis, townhouse to death camp, from the castle of Prague to the Cracow ghetto, and from the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains to the opulent faubourgs of modern Budapest. She talked with scores of people from every walk of life and recorded their candid observations on Jewish life before and since the Holocaust.
520 8 $aIllustrated with 52 evocative black-and-white photos, the result is a gift to be handed down through the generations, a book for those who have lost so much, a poignant reconstruction of a people. Upon the Doorposts of Thy House will enrich every reader who believes in the power of memory.
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