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Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
By Ziegelman, Jane
- ISBN
- 9781250284334
- Publisher
- St. Martin's
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Reviewed on October 1, 2025 | Social Sciences
Curious about her family's Polish history, Ziegelman (coauthor of A Square Meal) looked through an old volume she found on her parents' bookshelves. It was a yizkor (memory book) book from her relatives' hometown of Luboml, Poland. Groups of Holocaust survivors wrote yizkor books at the end of World War II to preserve their memories of Jewish life before the war. Jewish towns kept these books as chronicles of daily life and notable events....Log In or Sign Up to Read More
