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Yizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Yizker Bikher and the problem of historical veracity: an anthropological approach
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number943.8004924/0023
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]03616z
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]University Press of New England, Brandeis University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1989
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp519-536
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series; 10
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0874514460
NotesArticle from the book 'The Jews of Poland between two world wars' pp519-536
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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
