"Dr. Heschel re-creates the mind and character of a whole people and of an entire era. Not only Jews, but all who regard the culture of the inner life as important will find this book moving and meaningful." --Virginia Kirkus "Dr. Heschel admirably succeeds in conveying much of the inner content and the glory of traditional Jewish culture as it grew and throbbed in the towns and villages of Central and Eastern Europe. In few and eloquent pages the world can learn what it has lost." --Marvin Lowenthal, New York Herald Tribune Book Review "I do not know of any work in which the spiritual life of Eastern European Jewry is portrayed with such complete understanding and thorough appreciation." --Dr.

Louis Finkelstein "There are few books in English that plunge us so deeply into the depths of Jewish reality." --Irving Kristol, Commentary.