A New York Times Book Review 2021 holiday gift guide pickIn 1978
Others make us wonder how they’ve survived as long as they have (such as unhatched chicken eggs and jellied calves’ feet)
The language is spoken and written in many Orthodox Jewish communities and is the primary language of many predominantly Hasidic neighborhoods
the author unearths new perspectives on how Jews experienced daily life under Nazi occupation
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The Gold Train: The Destruction of the Jews and the Looting of Hungary by Ronald W. Zweig textbook A New York Times BookIn 1944, the great "Gold Train" headed west from Budapest, carrying gems, cash, furs, carpets, wedding rings, and even gold teeth all possessions stripped from Hungarian Jews before their murder. The Gold Train took on a legendary quality even as it steamed out of the station hundreds of millions of dollars in assets were on the move, accompanied by cunning, desperate, or gullible passengers trying to reach an illusory Nazi stronghold in the Alps.