Yizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
TitleYizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
Author
Call number943.8004924/0023
Object number03616z
Place of publicationHanover, New Hampshire, United States
Year of publication
1989
Physical descriptionpp519-536
MaterialArticle
Series titleThe Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series; 10
ISBN0874514460
NotesArticle from the book 'The Jews of Poland between two world wars' pp519-536
Description
The nearly 1,000 memorial books -"yizker bikher" (yizkor books) written primarily by Polish Jews to commemorate their destroyed communities, constitute a vast source of information. The problem addressed in this essay concerns the variety of possible uses of these books by survivors of the communities, by their descendants and other Jews born after ther war, or by scholars of twentieth-century Polish Jewry
