The Jews suffered bitterly in World War I, but little did they know, worse was yet to come. With some vague sense of the impending danger, Jews scrambled to flee Stalinist Russia, only to meet with immigration quotas in the United States and Arab riots in the Holy Land. Meanwhile, in Germany, the democratic Weimar republic seemed to be a deceptively safe haven. Rabbi Wein's meticulous account of this precarious decade, mixed in with some thought-provoking words of Torah, demonstrates that for European Jewry, the 1920's was the beginning of the end.