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From the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes compiled memorial books, or Yizker books, in an attempt to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information about their shtetls.
This multipart collection provides a concise history of the memorial books and their cultural contexts; eight analytical essays on or using Yizker books; key reviews, in some cases translated from the Yiddish, from the 1950s and later; and a bibliographic overview of secondary sources and collections.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: History
1 A History of Yizker Books (Rosemary Horowitz)
2 Israel as the Cradle of Yizker Books (Michlean Amir)
Part II: Landmark Essays
3 Landsmanshaftn Literature in the United States During the Past Ten Years (Philip Friedman)
4 Review of Yizker Books—1953 (Jacob Shatzky)
5 Review of Yizker Books—1955 (Jacob Shatzky)
6 A Survey and Evaluation of Yizker Books (Elias Schulman)
7 "Memorial Books" as a Source for Research into the History of Jewish Communities in Europe (Abraham Wein)
Part III: Studies of Yizker Books
8 Reception of Memorial Books in Poland (Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska)
9 "To Hold Our Own Against Silence" (Adina Cimet)
10 "Write This as a Memorial in the Book"—A Jewish Pattern for Memory (Roni Kochavi-Nehab)
11 Blood Ties: Leib Rochman's Yiddish War Diary (Jan Schwarz)
Part IV: Studies Using Yizker Books
12 Authenticating the Historical Fiction of Uri Orlev (Rosemary Horowitz)
13 Yizker Books and Photographic Form (Daniel Magilow)
14 The Others in Yizker Books (Rivka Parciak)
15 Klezmer Memories in Yizker Books (Yale Strom)
Part V: Bibliography
16 A Survey of Reference Books (Rosemary Horowitz)
17 A Survey of Collections (Amy Burnette and Rosemary Horowitz)
About the Contributors
Index
