A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland by Menashe Unger Yiddish Learning But can one man alone

But can one man alone stand up to the goblins

Despite Stalinist repressions

and an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at four generations of people who are just a little bit crazy on the subject of fish

By January 1943

A Fire Burns in Kotsk: A Tale of Hasidism in the Kingdom of Poland by Menashe Unger Yiddish Learning But can one man aloneHalf a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe, its members were making deep inroads into the institutional structure of Polish Jewish communities, but some devotees believed that the movement had drifted away from its revolutionary ideals. Menashe Unger's A Fire Burns in Kotsk dramatizes this moment of division among Polish Hasidim in a historical account that reads like a novel, though the book was never billed as such. Originally