Category: Community Guides

A warm, plain-language introduction to the Chassidic world: its history from the Baal Shem Tov, its rebbes and dynasties, and its daily customs, nusach, dress and communities.

A warm guide to the Hungarian and Oberlander Jewish world — its history of fierce traditionalism, the Chasam Sofer and Pressburg, the Oberland–Unterland divide, beloved foods, and how the kehilla rebuilt after the Shoah.

A warm introduction to the Galician and Polish Jewish heritage — its great centers of Torah and Chassidus, its minhagim and foods, the destruction of the Shoah, and the living legacy carried forward in heimishe homes today.