The World That Was

The Jewish Press has a review of an excellent new book by Sha'ar Press, The World That Was: America 1900-1945: Transmitting the Torah Legacy to America by Rabbi A. Leib Schneinabum. The review lauds this attempt to present history accurately, without modernist revision to make the past look like the current.

I read one chapter of the book and agree that it is excellent, although it has the typical Artscroll coffee-table layout that makes it look much less serious than it really is.

The best line from the review:

"The Chazon Ish wrote that one who does not learn history is doomed to repeat the failures of his people."

So that's where George Santayana got it from!