Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Aharon Pick Yiddish Learning Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs

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

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

The new edition makes this rare work available for the first time since its publication

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania by Aharon Pick Yiddish Learning Showing how rabbis employed eunuchsTranslated 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