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Book A City and the Dead  Zablotow Alive and Destroyed

Download or read book A City and the Dead Zablotow Alive and Destroyed written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation of the Memorial (Yizkor) of Zabolotov, Ukraine. Original title in Hebrew: �Ir u-metim; Zablotow ha-melea ve-ha-hareva. Original Yizkor Book Edited by Former Residents of Zablotow in Israel and the USA Published in Tel-Aviv Israel, 1949

Book From a Ruined Garden  Second Expanded Edition

Download or read book From a Ruined Garden Second Expanded Edition written by Zachary M. Baker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An indispensable sourcebook... Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." --Geoffrey Hartmann, The New Republic "From these marvelous selections, one can see an entire culture unfolding." --Curt Leviant, New York Times Book Review "This newly revised version of the classic study... is a pleasure for the eye and the soul One of the seminal studies of the impact of the Shoah on European Jewry, it is even more moving in its new incarnation than in its original version. More than a collection of studies of books of remembrance and mourning, this volume asks how one can mourn for a world lost and still live in the present and the future." --Sander L. Gilman "Kugelmass and Boyarin have done a splendid job of combing the vast memorial book literature to select the most revealing accounts of Jewish life in interbellum Poland. Ordinary people speak in this volume with an immediacy and poignancy that cannot help but touch the reader. In the time since it first appeared, From a Ruined Garden has become a classic. Its reappearance in an updated and expanded form is most welcome." --Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett "In this magnificent collection, the editors combine a profound 'feel' for the vanished world of Polish Jewry, the anthologist's skill at selecting the telling example, and the anthropologist's sophisticated understanding of how these testimonies should be read. A marvelous introduction to this rich literature." --Peter Novick Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust compiled memorial books to preserve the memory of their destroyed communities. They describe daily life in the shtetl as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors. These memories paint a haunting picture of a way of life lost forever.

Book A Summer of Mass Murder

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Eisen
  • Publisher : Purdue University Press
  • Release : 2022-12-15
  • ISBN : 1612497772
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book A Summer of Mass Murder written by George Eisen and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets. The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World War II and the Holocaust. In six weeks, more than twenty thousand Hungarian Jews were forcefully deported to Galicia and summarily executed. In exploring the fate of these Hungarian Jews and their local coreligionists, A Summer of Mass Murder transcends conventional history by introducing a multitude of layers of politics, culture, and, above all, psychology—for both the victims and the executioners. The narrative presents an uncharted territory in Holocaust scholarship with extensive archival research, interviews, and corresponding literature across countries and languages, incorporating many previously unexplored documents and testimonies. Eisen reflects upon the voices of the victims, the images of the perpetrators, whose motivation for murder remains inexplicable. In addition, the author incorporates the long-forgotten testimonies of bystander contemporaries, who unwittingly became part of the unfolding nightmare and recorded the horror in simple words. This book also serves as a personal journey of discovery. Among the twenty thousand people killed was the tale of two brothers, the author’s uncles. In retracing their final fate and how they were swept up in the looming genocide, A Summer of Mass Murder also gives voice to their story.

Book Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Download or read book Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies written by Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yad Vashem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance

Download or read book Yad Vashem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogical Resources in New York

Download or read book Genealogical Resources in New York written by Estelle M. Guzik and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updating the earlier, Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area, this volume describes genealogical repositories in all of New York's five boroughs with an emphasis on Jewish sources.

Book Yad Washem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance

Download or read book Yad Washem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Klezmer

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  • Author : Yale Strom
  • Publisher : Chicago Review Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1613740638
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Book of Klezmer written by Yale Strom and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2002.

Book The Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe

Download or read book The Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe written by Leon Dominian and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion  State  Society  and Identity in Transition

Download or read book Religion State Society and Identity in Transition written by Rob van der Laarse and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-society-identity relations could be defined as interaction(s) between state institutions, societal groups and individuals living within the borders of a (political) community/ state. These relations are never static, but vibrant, being in constant transition under the influence of cultural, religious and other developmental processes happening in individual and in society. Within the democratic structures the relation between state, society and individual is more open-minded placing the protection of citizens, preservation of citizens' rights, freedoms, and responsibilities as a departing point of dialogue taking in the perspective of the citizens' cultural, religious, and ethnic affiliations and backgrounds. Within totalitarian structures this relation is hindered and is not fully developed. The present publication addresses the transition in religion-state-societyidentity relations in Ukraine within the three-dimensional approach focusing on transdisciplinary perspectives on (1) political protests, (2) civil movements and/ or (3) revolution of dignity. Can the current events in Ukraine be defined mainly as political protests, i.e. a transition in state structure? Or more as civil movements, i.e. transition in society? Or is it a revolution of dignity, i.e. a transition in/of religion? An international group of researchers and experts from universities in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States of America have offered their perspective on the events in Ukraine in attempting to equip the reader with a glimpse of understanding of what happens in Ukraine and what consequences could be expected. Fair recognition of the events happening in Ukraine at the present time is already a first step towards reconciliation in the future. [Subject: Politics, Human Rights Law, ?Religion

Book Shards of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alicia Esther Goldberg
  • Publisher : Jewishgen.Incorporated
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781939561114
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Shards of Memory written by Alicia Esther Goldberg and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the Yizkor (Memorial) book of the Jewish community of Antopol; original book was edited by Benzion H. Ayalon, Tel-Aviv, 1972.

Book Akkerman and the Towns of Its District  Memorial Book

Download or read book Akkerman and the Towns of Its District Memorial Book written by Nisan Amitai Stambul and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Memorial Book of Akkerman and the Towns of its District (Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy, Ukraine). Translation of Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron; Tells the history of the Jewish community from its establishment until its destruction in the holocaust.

Book Memorial Book of Sochaczew

    Book Details:
  • Author : G Wejszman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-03-29
  • ISBN : 9781954176058
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Memorial Book of Sochaczew written by G Wejszman and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sochaczew, located in central Poland is a town about 44 miles due west of Warsaw, whose Jewish presence dates back to the 15th century. The first reported Jew in town was in 1463 - a doctor. Life was not easy for the Jews due to an alleged "blood libel" in the mid- 16th century, and the rabbi was punished with a death penalty, along with several other inhabitants. In the 19th century the Jewish community grew. Sochaczew became a great Hasidic center, first led by Tzaddik Abraham Bornsztajn. In the later part of the 19th century reconstruction of the synagogue began after the previous one was burned down. Being on the road between Berlin and Warsaw many of the Jews fled during World War I. There were several town "personalities" such as Chaikel the Wagon Driver that were written about in addition the many rabbis. There were workers' movements and professional unions as well as a Bund and Communist Circle. Memories of some of the survivors are related in the book. The synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis when they entered the town in September 1939, and the town was destroyed during World War ll. Many of the Jews ended up in the Warsaw ghetto and some ended up in the Skarzyko Work Camp. 4,000 Jews lived in the town at the start of the war. Few survived. Today, there are no Jews in the town.

Book Joseph Perl s Revealer Of Secrets

Download or read book Joseph Perl s Revealer Of Secrets written by Dov Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dawning of the nineteenth century found the Jews of Eastern Europe torn between the forces of progress and reaction as they took their first tentative steps toward the modern world. In a war of words and of books, Haskaia–the Jewish Enlightenment–did battle with the religious revival movement known as Hasidism. Perl, an ardent advocate of Enlightenment, unleashed the opening salvo with the publication in 1819 of Revealer of Secrets. The novel tried to pass itself off as a hasidic holy book when it was, in fact, a broadside against Hasidism–a parody of its teachings and of the language of its holy books. The outraged hasidim responded by buying up and burning as many copies as they could. Dov Taylor's careful translation and commentary make this classic of Hebrew literature available and accessible to the contemporary English-speaking reader while preserving the integrity and bite of Perl's original. With Hasidism presently enjoying a remarkable rebirth, the issues in Revealer of Secrets are all the more relevant to those seeking to balance reason and faith. As the first Hebrew novel, the work will also be of great interest to students of modern Hebrew literature and modern Jewish history.

Book Galicia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul R. Magocsi
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802024824
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Galicia written by Paul R. Magocsi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive bibliographic guide to Galicia history.

Book There Was A Shtetl In Lithuania

Download or read book There Was A Shtetl In Lithuania written by Hedva Scop and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorial or Yizkor or Book of the Jewish Community of Dusiat, Lithuania. Alternate names of the town are: Dusetos [Lithuanian]; Dusiat/Dusyat [Yiddish]; Dusiaty [Russian, Polish]; Dusiat

Book Remembering Dvinsk   Daugavpils  Latvia

Download or read book Remembering Dvinsk Daugavpils Latvia written by Yudel Flior and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Memorial (Yizkor) Book for the Jewish Community of Dvinsk ( Daugavpils), Latvia, containing a reprint of the 1965 book Dvinsk - The Rise and Decline of a Town by Yudel Flior, translated from Yiddish by Bernard Sachs and the translation of the 1975 class project In Memory of the Community of Dvinsk plus appendix of historic photographs.