Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry: Essays on the History and Meanings of Yizker Volumes by Rosemary Horowitz Discount these stories reveal the human

these stories reveal the human side of the challenges that faced Jews throughout this time

By narrating the lives of impoverished and working-class Jews in Europe and urban North America

Half a century after Hasidism blossomed in Eastern Europe

and the Frankel family is descending upon their beloved summer home in the Berkshires

and totalitarianism

Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry: Essays on the History and Meanings of Yizker Volumes by Rosemary Horowitz Discount these stories reveal the humanFrom the Russian civil wars through the Nazi years, the Jews of Eastern Europe were targets of violence during the first half of the twentieth century. During the Holocaust especially, entire communities were wiped out. In response, survivors sometimes compiled memorial books, or Yizker books, in an attempt to preserve historical, biographical, and cultural information about their shtetls. This multipart collection provides a concise history of the