A collection of 22 volumes. All illustrated, most with maps. Texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, few with abstracts in English

AUCTION 1 | Thursday, November 14th, 1996 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 280
(YIZKOR-BICHER. “Memorial Books”).

A collection of 22 volumes. All illustrated, most with maps. Texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, few with abstracts in English

Abbreviated listing according to region or town-name: Bavaria. Jerusalem, 1972. * Bergen-Belsen. New York, 1965. * Czestochowa. New York, 1947. * Czyzewo. Tel Aviv, 1961. * Dabrowa Gornicza. Tel Aviv, 1971. * Drohiczyn. Chicago, 1958. * Halmin-Turcz. Tel Aviv, 1968. * Hoszcza (Hosht). Tel Aviv, 1957. * Krakow. Jerusalem, 1959. * Lachwa. Jerusalem, 1957. * Lipkany. Tel Aviv, 1963. * Lithuania. Volume I only (of 2). New York, 1951. * Lithuania. Vols. I and IV only (of 4). Tel Aviv, 1959 and 1984. * Lublin. Toronto, 1951. * Nowy Sacz (Sanz). New York, 1970. * Ostrow. Jerusalem, 1966. * Rowne. Tel Aviv, 1956. * Rumania. Volume I only (of 2). Jerusalem, 1969. * Skierniewice. Tel Aviv, 1955. * Turka. Haifa, 1966. * Zoludek-Orlowa. Tel Aviv, n.d Original cloth and wrappers, few with dust-jackets, folio and smaller For further bibliographic information, see Z.M. Baker, Bibliography of Eastern European Memorial Books, in: J. Kugelmass & J. Boyarin, From a Ruined Garden. The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry (1983) pp.223-264

V.p: v.d

Est: $500 - $750
PRICE REALIZED $750
A collection of 22 Memorial Volumes devoted to the lives and sudden deaths of entire Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe, written by the survivors and emigres