To hold our own against silence

The yizkor book is a text that in Jewish culture is designated to remember people, places and events. The versions of these books written by Holocaust survivors began appearing immediately after World War II. When the survivors of Eastern European communities regrouped in new locations, they wanted the publications to commemorate those who were murdered and to recapture a vanished way of life. The author examines 46 books from 1946-1987 identifying a variety of cultural and philsophical messages