An important work of history. A vital book of hashkafah. About the author: Rabbi Joseph Elias was born in Germany and has been one of the American Torah community's most distinguished thinkers, educators, and authors for over sixty years. Among his other accomplishments, he led Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit, Rika Breuer Teachers Seminary in New York, and founded Torah Umesorah's Zechor Yemos Olam Holocaust education project.