The Woman in the Room: A Jewish Life Through 100 Years of History by Naomi B. Levine with Sofia Groopman Dybbuk From the Vilna Ghetto to

From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the scale of the Holocaust was first coming into focus

just like the heroines in her beloved novels

in these pages Joan Nathan—“the queen of American Jewish cooking” (Houston Chronicle)—gathers together more than 170 recipes

In this retelling of a Yiddish folktale

Then she in turn grew up to teach others

The Woman in the Room: A Jewish Life Through 100 Years of History by Naomi B. Levine with Sofia Groopman Dybbuk From the Vilna Ghetto toBorn into a poor, immigrant family, Naomi B. Levine grew up in the Bronx and on Manhattans storied Lower East Side in an era when women were not encouraged to have lives of their own. Nevertheless, she managed to raise herself to prominence as a leader of Jewish affairs, champion of civil rights, and expert fundraiser. Poignant, direct, and inflected with Yiddishkeit, The Woman in the Room is the story of how Levine went from living in a crowded