@Book{645030929, editor="Horowitz, Rosemary", title="Memorial books of Eastern European Jewry: essays on the history and meanings of Yizker volumes", year="2011", publisher="McFarland", address="Jefferson, N.C", keywords="Memorial books (Holocaust); History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Europe, Eastern; Holocaust survivors; Intellectual life; Osteuropa; Judentum; Memorbuch", contents="Machine generated contents note: pt. I History ; 1.A History of Yizker Books Rosemary Horowitz", abstract="``Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. Survivors compiled memorial books to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information. This collection provides a history of the memorial books and their cultural contexts; essays on Yizker books; key reviews (some translated from Yiddish); and a bibliographic overview of secondary sources''--Provided by publisher", note="edited by Rosemary Horowitz", note="Includes bibliographical references and index", note="Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c2011", isbn="0786441992", language="English" }