Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum - Paperbackby Jeffrey Shandler (Author) Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of Polish scholars who had devoted their professional lives to the study of Europe's Yiddish speaking Jews at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Faced with the