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Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler sync error but explains the cultural expressionsHomes 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 devastating knowledge that returning to