(YIZKOR-BICHER
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 186
(YIZKOR-BICHER
v.p.: v.d.
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
A collection of Memorial Volumes devoted to the lives and sudden deaths of entire Jewish Communities in pre-War Central and Eastern Europe.
Yizkor books contain unparalleled historical detail, elsewhere unavailable, pertaining to religious, social and economic life in numerous smaller and larger towns, as well as the local upheaval brought about following the invasion by the German hordes.
“The Memorial book will also serve as a substitute grave. Whenever we pick up the book we feel we are standing next to their grave because even that the murderers denied them” ( Introduction, From a Ruined Garden, p. 11, n. 25)