Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Aharon Pick Yiddish Learning Thousands tried their luck in

Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East

More than 50 delightful illustrations by Frank Newfeld accompany the text

Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity

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Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Aharon Pick Yiddish Learning Thousands tried their luck inTranslated from the original Hebrew text by Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of iauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (18721944). A physician, scholar, and community leader, Pick was a keen observer of the hardships of ghetto life, and his journal represents a detailed account of the tragic events he witnessed as well as a sensitive, almost