The Collected Works of Esther Kreitman Rahel Berkovits (ed) The Time Before

The Time Before

illuminate the concepts in the text

illustrations

בבסיסה של ברית הנישואין היהודית מונח צופן

and stories of his journey through and to Yeshiva University

The Collected Works of Esther Kreitman Rahel Berkovits (ed) The Time BeforeEsther Kreitmans fiction explores the realities of Jewish life in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Uncompromising in her critique of injustice and hypocrisy, she exposes the emptiness of those who maintain nothing of Judaism but rituals devoid of meaning. She insists on the dignity of those denied opportunity: the poor, women, and all excluded from modern education. Her characters love and work, despair and rebel as they move through