Auction 1 · Lot 280

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

Estimate: $500–$750
Hammer price: $750

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(YIZKOR-BICHER. “Memorial Books”).

Place

V.p

Publication

v.d

Description

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

references

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

summary

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

Original cloth and wrappers, few with dust-jackets, folio and smaller

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