"Lithuania" is ferocious, a book like a warrior, like a piece of music you will never forget. First-rate literature. An important book.

Written by Myra Sklarew and translated into Yiddish by David Wolpe, The Witness Trees is an amazing bilingual (English/Yiddish) compendium of poetry, eyewitness accounts, and a moving historical narrative of Lithuanian Jewish history. The Witness Trees includes Dovid Kartz's introductory essay on "Jewish Lithuania and a Shtel called Keidan", and David Wolpe's "The Destruction of Keidan". This is followed by a Preface, and then Myra Skalrew's "Lithuania". The Witness Trees is strongly recommended reading for students of Judaic and Holocaust Studies, as well as anyone with an interest in Yiddish literature and translation.