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The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust /
This three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of Jewish life. Some entries, particularly for large cities, pro...
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| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Jerusalem : New York :
Yad Vashem ; New York University Press,
2001.
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This three-volume encyclopedia, abridged from a 30-volume set in Hebrew and with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, chronicles Jewish life before and during the Holocaust. Arranged alphabetically by town, thousands of entries explore centuries of Jewish life. Some entries, particularly for large cities, provide information on Jewish residents as early as the Middle Ages and discuss the fate of Jews during the Black Death persecutions (1348-1349) and various pogroms from the 17th to 20th centuries. Each entry provides information on the town's Jewish inhabitants on the eve of German occupation, gives the dates of Jewish roundups and mass executions and estimates how many Jews from that community survived the war. Includes more than 600 black-and-white photographs. |
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"These three volumes are an abridgment of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem"--Title page verso. |
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3 volumes (1769 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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0814793568 9780814793565 0814793762 9780814793763 0814793770 9780814793770 0814793789 9780814793787 |