Yizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
TitreYizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
Auteur
Call number943.8004924/0023
N° d'objet03616z
Lieu de publicationHanover, New Hampshire, United States
Année de publication
1989
Paginationpp519-536
MatérielArticle
SérieThe 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
