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The Encyclopedia of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust / editor in chief, Shmuel Spector ; consulting editor, Geoffrey Wigoder ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Reading Room REF DS 135 .E8 E45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Europe--History--Encyclopedias.
- Jews.
- Jews--Africa, North--Encyclopedias.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Encyclopedias.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Europe--History, Local.
- Europe.
- Africa, North--History, Local.
- Africa, North.
- North Africa.
- Jews--Europe--History.
- Jews--Africa--History.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
- Genre:
- encyclopedias.
- Encyclopedias.
- History.
- Local history.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes (1769 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem : Yad Vashem ; New York : New York University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- v. 1. A-J
- v. 2. K-Sered
- v. 3. Seredina-Buda-Z.
- Notes:
- "These three volumes are an abridgment of the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities published in Hebrew by Yad Vashem"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- תרגום מעובד של: פנקס הקהילות : אנציקלופדיה של היישובים היהודיים למן היווסדם ועד לאחר שואת מלחמת העולם השנייה.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0814793568
- 9780814793565
- 0814793762
- 9780814793763
- 0814793770
- 9780814793770
- 0814793789
- 9780814793787
- OCLC:
- 46640962
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