Voices from Vilna

Voices from Vilna
by Helaine Shoag Greenberg

Voices from Vilna
List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $6.17
You Save: $3.78 (38%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $5.99 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions


(Click here)
Buy this book at online book store in your country
Canada | UK | Germany | France

Book Summary Information

Author: Helaine Shoag Greenberg
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-18
ISBN: 0595397379
Number of pages: 66
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.

Book Reviews of Voices from Vilna

Book Review: This belongs in every library...
Summary: 5 Stars

Jack Bershad's review is right on the button. It is everything he said it was, and more. Dr. Greenberg's Voices From Vilna is poignant, and priceless. It brings you to tears, while revealing the courage of everyday heroes. It is a book everyone should read.

Summary of Voices from Vilna

To my great joy, I found poignant letters in my family home describing my father's and his family's life and current events from 1930 to 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania. On a "roots trip" there in 2000, the letters were shown to the Director of the Vilna Gaon Museum who thought them valuable. Voices is a creative, non-fiction memoir told from the perspective of a first generation 'child'. The letters are arranged chronologically, interspersed with letters to my father telling him what I found. Sadly, new photographs show evidence of ongoing anti-Semitism. I wrote this story as a memorial to the letter writers.

Chapter One contains love letters to my mother from my father. It also describes his desperate attempts to leave the country. Chapter Two shows how hard my father tried to get some of his family out, especially his sister married to a rabbi. Rabbis were targets of oppression. Chapter Three illustrates how difficult life became in Vilna even before the Holocaust. It was a cry for help. They knew what was coming, yet kept hope alive. I'm glad my father could not go back with me because the experience would have been too painful for him.

Irish Books

Book Subjects
Most talked about in Irish Books
A Drinking Life: A Memoir ImageA Drinking Life: A Memoir
by Pete Hamill
Back Bay Books; Published: 1995-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.09
Price in other shops: $13.99
Nicholas and Alexandra ImageNicholas and Alexandra
by Robert K. Massie
Ballantine Books; Published: 2000-02-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops: $18.95
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition ImageThe Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander
Knopf; Published: 1998-11-03; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.39
Price in other shops: $29.95
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn ImageThe Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
by Eric Ives
Wiley-Blackwell; Published: 2005-07-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.20
Price in other shops: $19.95
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory ImageThe Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory
by William Manchester
Little, Brown and Company; Published: 1983-05-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.90
Price in other shops: $50.00
'Tis: A Memoir Image'Tis: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Scribner; Published: 2000-08-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.58
Price in other shops: $14.95
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ImageAngela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Simon & Schuster; Published: 1999-05-25; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.70
Price in other shops: $14.95
Teacher Man: A Memoir ImageTeacher Man: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Scribner; Published: 2005-11-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $2.69
Price in other shops: $26.00
The Children of Henry VIII ImageThe Children of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Ballantine Books; Published: 1997-07-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.24
Price in other shops: $16.00
The Six Wives of Henry VIII ImageThe Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Grove Press; Published: 1991-01-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops: $16.95
Similar Books and other products
The Inheritance of Loss ImageThe Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
Grove Press; Published: 2006-08-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops: $14.00
Istanbul: Memories and the City ImageIstanbul: Memories and the City
by Orhan Pamuk
Vintage; Published: 2006-07-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops: $15.95
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories