Yizkor Books: Narratives of Memory and Resilience of a Lost Jewish World

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Written primarily by Holocaust survivors, yizkor books were created to memorialize the Jewish towns—known as shtetls, in Yiddish—once scattered across Eastern Europe. Yizkor books documented both the day-to-day culture that was characteristic of these communities, and their destruction during World War II. Join Jane Ziegelman, author of Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World, for a discussion about the history and substance of these remarkable books, as both testaments to the power of remembering and to the resilience of a people who refused to be forgotten. Organized by the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and co-sponsored by the Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University.

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