Download or read book Memorial Book in Memory of the Destroyed Jewish Community of written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg Lithuania written by Joel Alpert and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the English translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania, originally published in 1991 in Hebrew and Yiddish. It also has an additional new 150-page appendix containing new material collected since the publication of the original book. Contains many new photographs to enhance the original book.

Download or read book Minsk Mazowiecki Memorial Book written by Organization of former inhabitants of minsk-mazowiecki in Israël (Jérusalem) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

Download or read book The Object of Memory written by Susan Slyomovics and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a village in Palestine called Ein Houd, whose people traced their ancestry back to one of Saladin's generals who was granted the territory as a reward for his prowess in battle. By the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, all the inhabitants of Ein Houd had been dispersed or exiled or had gone into hiding, although their old stone homes were not destroyed. In 1953 the Israeli government established an artists' cooperative community in the houses of the village, now renamed Ein Hod. In the meantime, the Arab inhabitants of Ein Houd moved two kilometers up a neighboring mountain and illegally built a new village. They could not afford to build in stone, and the mountainous terrain prevented them from using the layout of traditional Palestinian villages. That seemed unimportant at the time, because the Palestinians considered it to be only temporary, a place to live until they could go home. The Palestinians have not gone home. The two villages—Jewish Ein Hod and the new Arab Ein Houd—continue to exist in complex and dynamic opposition. The Object of Memory explores the ways in which the people of Ein Houd and Ein Hod remember and reconstruct their past in light of their present—and their present in light of their past. Honorable Mention, 1999 Perkins Book Prize, Society for the Study of Narrative

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Holocaust written by Dr Robert Rozett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust is a comprehensive, authoritative one-volume reference that provides reliable information on this ignoble and frightening episode of modern history. It features eight essays on the history of the Holocaust and its antecedents, as well as coverage of such topics as the history of European Jewry, Jewish contributions to European culture, and the rise of anti-semitism and Nazism. The essays are followed by more than 650 entries on significant aspects of the Holocaust, including people, cities and countries, camps, resistance movements, political actions, and outcomes. More than 300 black-and-white photographs from the archives at Yad Vashem bear witness to the horrors of the Nazi regime and at the same time attest to the invincibility of the human spirit. Best Specialist Reference Work of the Year - Reference Reviews UK

Download or read book Shtetl Routes written by Emil Majuk and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Book of Shebreshin written by Dov Shuval and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Yizkor book of the Shebreshiner community, one of the more than one thousand Jewish communities in Poland destroyed, is published 42 years after the massacres in the shtetl, and 39 years after the defeat of the Nazi regime and the end of the Second World War. Is it not too late? Is it not in the sense of too little, too late? Has not everything already been written about the destruction of Jewish life in Poland? Has the material not already been exhausted? Of course this sad chapter in the history of our people has not been forgotten, but everything which has been written up to now has not emphasized enough the extent of the loss: the tragic end of the life-giving, thousand year old Jewish existence in Poland. Many yizkor books of the devastated communities have been published, but it is not sufficient. Every one of the survivors wants to cherish the memories of the past, everyone wants to see his own city and story in the book, wants to immortalize that which is most intimate to him. Every city and shtetl was a little world of its own, a Jewish world with social institutions, political parties, organizations, schools, and synagogues, and a shared tradition. It is all unforgettable and demands expression. Such was also Shebreshin, a shtetl in the Zamosc area, Lublin province, which was populated by 8,000 people before the war, 3,000 of whom were Jews.

Download or read book The First to Be Destroyed written by Witold Medykowski and published by Judaism and Jewish Life. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" began.

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.

Download or read book A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Zhetl Dzyatlava Belarus written by Baruch Kaplinski and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're reading this it's because you want to learn about the now extinct Jewish village of Zhetl, known today as Dyatlovo, Belarus. Unfortunately, you can't read it in Yiddish. Sixty-Five years after this Zhetl Yizkor book was originally published, I am honored to make it available to the English-speaking world. Why do you care about Zhetl? If you're like me, it's probably because your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles, aunts or cousins were born and lived in Zhetl. A few of them survived, all of them tried to, but most of them were savagely murdered during humanity's lowest point in modern history: the Holocaust of World War II. If you're like me, you've heard bits and pieces of your family's Zhetl's stories over the years. Some of them get repeated to the point where you no longer hear them. Then one day you wake up and want to know more. You want to ask the questions which your youthful self didn't have the time, nor interest, to ask. But alas, our Zhetl is gone. Therein lies the wisdom of our dear Zhetl relatives. They knew this day would come. We all owe a debt of gratitude to all the authors who made the time to tell their stories, as painful as it was. To Baruch Kaplinski (z"l) for editing the original 1957 version and to Mordecai (Motl) Dunetz (z"l), for passionately gathering and editing materials from former Zhetl residents and survivors the world over for nearly a decade in order to drive the project through to its completion.

Download or read book Memorial Candles Children of the Holocaust written by Dina Wardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the children of the Holocaust reach adulthood, they often need professional help in establishing a new identity and self-esteem. During their childhood their parents have unconsciously transmitted to them much of their own trauma, investing them with all their memories and hopes, so that they become 'memorial candles' to those who did not survive. The book combines verbatim transcriptions of dialogues in individual and group psychotherapy sessions with analyses of dreams, fantasies and childhood memories. Diana Wardi traces the emotional history of her patients, accompanying them on a painful and moving journey into their inner world. She describes the children's infancy in the guilt-laden atmosphere of survivor families, through to their difficult separation from their parents in maturity. she also traces in detail the therapeutic process which culminates in the patients' separation from the role of 'memorial candle'.

Download or read book Storm from Paradise written by Jonathan Boyarin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm from Paradise was first published in 1992. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Usefully complicating common sense understandings of history, catastrophe, loss, otherness, and possibility through reflections on contemporary Jewishness, Boyarin draws on Benjamins's famous image of the Angel of History blown into the future by a "storm from paradise" to constantly interrogate and recuperate the past, "without pretending for long that we can recoup its plentitude". The book's seven thoughtful essays are at times deliberately intangible but always worth reading. An important book for the rethinking of the relevance of Jewishness to anthropology and cultural studies." –Religious Studies Review "An essay in the richest sense of that term, inspired by and modeled on Walter Benjamin's essays. Based on varied, diverse, and abundantly cross-disciplinary readings, it moves and builds, questions and interrogates, and ultimately convinces us that the Jewish experience with being the 'other' and, conversely and recently, with 'othering' is indeed relevant to theorists of contemporary culture." –Marianne Hirsch Jonathan Boyarin is the author of Palestine and Jewish History, and co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin, of Jews and Other Differences and Powers of Diaspora.

Download or read book Memorial Book of the Community of Turka on the Stryj and Vicinity Turka Ukraine Translation of Sefer Zikaron Le Kehilat Turka Al Nehar Stryj Ve Ha Seviva written by Yitzhak Siegelman and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turka is a Ukrainian town situated on the left bank of the river Stryi. Jews first came to Turka in the 1800s. The first synagogue, Jewish cemetery and the Jewish old age home were built in 1730. In 1903, Turka began to flourish when a railway line connected the city with Lwow and with Budapest, and the Austrian government authorized the founding of an official Jewish community. Business expanded, especially the lumber business. Jews owned the sawmills, had licenses to sell liquor. Others worked at various trades - tailoring, shoemaking, barbering, clock making, and lock smithing. Many of the physicians and lawyers in Turka were Jews. Yiddish theatre came to Turka and interest was sparked in cultural events, sports events, and political events. Some Jews were Zionists, some were Hassids, some were socialists, and some were assimilationists. After the Great War, Galicia reverted to Poland, the city had been plundered by the Russian army; many Jews had left, and all Jewish property had been destroyed. There were Ukrainian revolts and Jewish pogroms. Nevertheless, after the War, there were approximately 6,000 inhabitants in Turka, 41% of whom were Jewish. Another 7,000 Jews lived in the surrounding villages. The Jewish population managed to rebuild. Just prior to World War II, 10,000 people lived in Turka; half were Jewish. The catastrophe began when the Germans turned against the Soviet Union in June 1941 and Turka was captured by the Wehrmacht. The Jews of Turka were massacred, or starved to death, or sent to the Sambir ghetto and, hence, to the crematoria. There are no Jews left in Turka today. This book serves as a memorial to the Jewish community of Turka. It should be if interest to researchers and descendants of the town. Turka, Ukraine is located at: 49 09' North Latitude and 23 02' East Longitude Alternate names for the town are: Turka [Polish, Ukrainian], Turka al nehar Stry [Hebrew], Turka and Stryjem Nearby Jewish Communities: Melnychne 2 miles S, Nyzhnya Yablun'ka 4 miles SW Borynya 6 miles SSW, Sokoliki, Poland 8 miles WSW Yabluniv 8 miles SSE, Sianky 11 miles SSW, D winiacz Gorny, Poland 11 miles W, Tarnawa Ni na, Poland 11 miles W, Limna 11 miles NW, Strelki 13 miles N, Bitlya 13 miles SSW, Uzhok 14 miles SSW, Dovhe 14 miles E, Volosyanka 15 miles SW, Skhidnitsya 15 miles ENE, Podbuzh 16 miles NE, Lutowiska, Poland 17 miles WNW, Tykhyy 18 miles SSW, Smozhe 19 miles SSE, Stavnoye 19 miles WSW, Boryslav 20 miles ENE, Staryy Sambor 20 miles N, Bukovets 20 miles SSW, Lyuta 21 miles SW, Orov 23 miles E, Truskavets 23 miles ENE, Stara Sil' 23 miles N, Skole 23 miles ESE, Verkhneye Sinevidnoye 25 miles E, Drohobych 25 miles ENE, Stebnik 26 miles ENE, Sambir 26 miles NNE, Skelevka 27 miles N, Nyzhni Vorota 27 miles S, Sil' 27 miles WSW, Kro cienko, Poland 27 miles NW, Lavochnoye 28 miles SSE, Khyriv 28 miles NNW, Verkhni Vorota 28 miles S, Chornoholova 28 miles SW, Ustrzyki Dolne, Poland 28 miles NW, Uli ske Krive, Slovakia 29 miles WSW, Uli, Slovakia 30 miles WSW, Husne Wyzne 7 miles SSW, Husne Nizne 7 miles SSW

Download or read book From a Ruined Garden written by Zachary M. Baker and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after World War II, Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who had made their way to the Americas and Israel compiled memorial books to preserve the memory of their destroyed communities. From a Ruined Garden gathers some 77 sections from the nearly 1,000 memorial books published. The texts describe daily life in the shtetl as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors.

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.

Download or read book Smorgonie District Vilna Memorial Book and Testimony Smarhon Belarus written by Abba Gordin and published by Jewishgen.Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the English translation of the memorial book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Smorgon. This book contains first-hand descriptions of the rich life of the Jewish community of Smorgon before the Shoah and its destruction by the Nazis. May this book serve as a memory to those who perished and the community that was destroyed.