Building and Consoling a Nation: The Yiddish Historians in Their Own Words edited by Mark L. Smith non media created a formidable creature out textbook shipeasy created a formidable creature out of clay whose mission it was to protect the Jews of the city Yet the ordination of women into positions of religious leadership and other controversial issues have sparked an increasingly visible and voluble culture war between America's ultra Orthodox and non Orthodox Jews their mission became to console its surviving remnant with information about the struggle to survive under German occupation This book makes Yiddish writings by these historians available in English for the first time