New from OU Press: Letters from Mir: A Torah World in the Shadow of the Shoah – The Correspondence of Ernest Gugenheim. In 1938, a young French Jew went to learn at the Mir Yeshiva in Lithuania. The book consists of the letters he wrote home to his family. His correspondence paints a remarkable picture of the Mir Yeshiva, the shtetl of Mir, and a way of life that would soon be engulfed in destruction.