| International Standard Book Number |
9781250284341
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250284334
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| Personal Name |
Ziegelman, Jane author aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009075032
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| Title Statement |
Once there was a town : the memory books of a lost Jewish world / Jane Ziegelman.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
pages cm
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost world By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long-history of self-narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote books, yizkor books, remembering all that had been destroyed. Jane Ziegelman's Once There Was a Town takes readers on a journey through this largely uncharted body of writing and the vanished world it depicts. Once There Was a Town resounds with the voices of rich and poor, shopkeepers and tradespeople, scholars and peddlers, Zionists and Communists, men and women telling stories of the towns that were their homes. Stops are made in the bustling market squares where Jewish merchants catered to local farmers; study houses where men recited Torah; kitchens where homemakers baked 20-pound loaves of bread; cemeteries where mourners conversed with departed loved ones and wooded groves where young couples met for the occasional moonlit tryst. Of the many towns on Ziegelman's itinerary, she always circles back to Luboml, her family's ancestral shtetl and the point of departure for her own journey of discovery. In conversation with classics by IB Singer and Roman Vishniac, Once There Was a Town is a landmark of rediscovery, and a love song to a vanished world"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002493
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Memorial books (Holocaust) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002251
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