A SMALL TOWN IN UKRAINE, by Bernard Wasserstein (Penguin, $40)
There’s not much joy, but plenty of heart, in Bernard Wasserstein’s depiction of the Ukrainian shtetl (Jewish town) of his father’s birth.
Krakowiec, on the marshlands of Ukraine’s Polish border, is the small town of the book’s title and the author’s “ancestral hearth”. In the six centuries since it first appeared