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Title: From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry by Jack Kugelmass, Jonathan Boyarin, Zachary M. Baker, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ISBN: 0-253-21187-5 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: From a Ruined Garden
Comment: Fantastic book. Reading it is like exploring the vanished world of polish stetels. Although I found only one chapter regarding Szczebrzeszyn I highly recomend the book. I wish there would be more translations of Yizkor Books.

Rating: 5
Summary: an excellent presentation - a MUST BUY - MUST READ
Comment: This is a truly splendid compendium of excerpts from various memorial books written after the Holocaust to commemorate the vanished world of Eastern European Jewish life in the shtetlach of Poland. I read it in a sitting and will re-read it in the future. For anyone with the slightest interest in this vanished world, I URGE you to buy this book - give it to your friends, as well.

Rating: 5
Summary: This book vividly describes a destroyed world
Comment: Rarely is a book published that causes an entirely new genre of studies to open up. This was the result of the first edition of this book printed in 1983. Before 1983, some scholars, librarians, and genealogical researchers knew of yizkher bikher in general, but up to that time there had not been a major focus on these books as social, historical, and genealogical sources of first-hand knowledge of destroyed communities, to some extent because of language barriers. But as more lay persons began searching their roots in the late 1970s, with interest building in the 1980s and exploding in the 1990s, they started to tap into these remarkable books. The publication of From a Ruined Garden, containing over 70 translated excerpts from Polish yizkor books, illuminated for many lay persons the lost world depicted in these books from which they had been cut off because they could not read them in their original languages, primarily Yiddish and Hebrew. The first edition has long been out of print, but again, in another bit of fortunate timing, a second, expanded edition has been published.

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