Here are some extracts. I have also commented some of the entries The saddest one is the first one, for ten years later things would have changed forever.
1933
It was 1933 that the Jewish World changed forever. It was also 1933 that a book called “The Friday Night Book” the subtitle being “A Jewish Miscellany” was published by the Soncino Press in 1933. There was no identified writer.
A few copies survive, one being a Prize for Maurice Blank (my father-in-law for 2nd place at his Cheder in 1938. Here and there flashes of the Jewish World in 1933 come to the fore, and there is a certain innocence about the book.
Here are some extracts. I have also commented some of the entries The saddest one is the first one, for ten years later things would have changed forever.
Here are some extracts. I have also commented some of the entries The saddest one is the first one, for ten years later things would have changed forever.
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