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Yizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
TitoloYizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
Autore
Call number943.8004924/0023
Numero oggetto03616z
Luogo di pubblicazioneHanover, New Hampshire, United States
Anno di pubblicazione
1989
Paginazionepp519-536
MaterialeArticle
SerieThe 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
Descrizione
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
