As a zamler, or book collector, I have been invited into the homes of people who, though they may not understand Yiddish, do not want to discard the Yiddish books that their grandparents used to read and cherish.  I collect the books and send them to the National Yiddish Book Center, whose rescue efforts are nothing short of miraculous. In one of my journeys into an elderly woman's attic, I discovered Saul Raskin's artistic rendition of Tehillim, or the Book of Psalms.  As if directed by providential intervention, the book opened to an arresting picture of Hitler the beast, sword in hand, while a feminine figure rises above him.  Soldiers with swords lord it over their prostrate victims. Published in 1942, this collection of drawings is Raskin's artistic interpretations of the Psalms.  This particular etching not only describes the evil of the 20th century but actually presages the ongoing malevolence of the 21st century.  The black and white...(Read Full Article)