The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research published today a “Bibliography of Articles on the Catastrophe and Heroism in Yiddish Periodicals. This volume, edited by Joseph Gar, is part of the Bibliographical Series on Jews under the Nazis, a project in which YIVO is jointly engaged with Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
A total of 3,597 entries from over 250 Yiddish periodicals in Europe for the period from 1939 to 1950 are presented, including those published by the rescued Jews in Poland, France and other countries; the publications of the displaced persons that were issued in the camps after liberation; and the “Einigkeit” of Moscow. Of its 308 double-column pages, 96 contain the index of approximately 2,700 names and over 1,000 places in English. The preface, introduction and table of contents are also in English. The material for the volume has been culled from the rich collections of the YIVO library and from libraries in this country and Israel.
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