Photograph of Theda Bara

The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…

What is this sound of tumult that I hear— Roaring of the sea, not burbling of the brook Like the roar of a lion or a tiger? I am in great danger and do not know If my time approaches when I must…