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Eliyana Adler: "Yizkor Bikher/Memorial Books"
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Monthly Meetings
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This will be a Zoom meeting. Zoom link will be sent one week in advance of the event to all active members. It may become a hybrid meeting with a location TBA.
About this event
Dr. Eliyana Adler
Eliyana Adler is a student and teacher of East European Jewish history, with a particular focus on Poland and the USSR. Her first book, In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia (WSUP, 2011), examined the history of education and her second book, Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, followed the experiences of a group of Jewish refugees in the midst of the war and the Holocaust. Currently, she is working on a project about post-Holocaust Jewish memorial books.
Yizkor (memorial) books document the history of Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. Written in Yiddish, Hebrew, or both, they are a crucial resource for research in East European Jewish history, Holocaust studies, and Jewish genealogy; often, they include necrologies (lists of those who died), making them especially valuable for genealogical research. Visually, many of these books are extremely rich, featuring detailed maps, photographs, and illustrations.
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