%0 Book %T Memorial books of Eastern European Jewry: essays on the history and meanings of Yizker volumes %E Horowitz, Rosemary %D 2011 %I McFarland %C Jefferson, N.C %@ 0786441992 %G English %F 645030929 %O edited by Rosemary Horowitz %O Includes bibliographical references and index %O Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c2011 %X "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 %L 940.53/18 %K Memorial books (Holocaust) %K History %K Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) %K Jews %K Europe, Eastern %K Holocaust survivors %K Intellectual life %K Osteuropa %K Judentum %K Memorbuch %9 Text