The Yizkor Books Project is pleased to announce the intention to print fully translated Yizkor Books, so that copies will be available for purchase by the descendants of those destroyed communities, as well as by museum, university and synagogue libraries. Our intention is for this unique literature to be the source for teaching the history of these towns. We are aware that people can print the material from the web, and many will continue to do so. Nevertheless we feel there are those who would treasure a professionally printed version they can hold in their hands, or store on their own bookshelves Our project will offer affordable copies since the project was created both as a service to the public and as a memorial to the destroyed Jewish communities.

Currently available translated Yizkor Books In Print:
Brzeziny, Poland
	Brzezin Memorial Book Original Book Edited by A. Alperin and N. Summer Translated from the Yiddish by Renee Miller English Edition Coordinated and Edited by Fay Vogel Bussgang Published by JewishGen 464 pages with all images List Price: $61.95 Available on Amazon for $45.22, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Częstochowa, Poland
	The Destruction of Częstochowa Original Book Edited by S. Waga Translated from the Yiddish by Gloria Berkenstat Freund English Edition Coordinated and Edited by Gloria Berkenstat Freund Published by JewishGen List Price: $41.95 Available on Amazon for $31.88, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Działoszyce, Poland
	Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community in Dzialoszyce and Surroundings  Original book Published by the Dzialoszyce Society in Israel Translation edited and annotated by Fay and Julian Bussgang English Edition Published by JewishGen 374 pages List Price: $58.95 Available on Amazon for $43.03, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Holocaust
	Belzec - Stepping Stone to Genocide Written by Robin O'Neil Takes the reader step by step into the background of the “Final Solution” and gives eyewitness testimony as the mass graves were located and recorded. List Price: $54.95, Available on Amazon site for around $41 More details and availability
Jurbarkas (Yurburg), Lithuania
	Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania Original in Hebrew Edited by Zevulun Poran Published in Tel Aviv, 1991 Translation coordinated by Joel Alpert Hardcover 738 pages, containing over 200 illustrations List price: $62 Available at Amazon for $45, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Lithuanian History
	Preserving Our Litvak Heritage – Volume I (A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania) Written by Josef Rosin Edited by Joel Alpert Published by JewishGen 736 pages List Price: $73.95 Available on Amazon for $51.77, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
	Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume II (A History of 21 Jewish Communities in Lithuania) Written by Josef Rosin Edited by Don Loon and Joel Alpert Published by JewishGen 332 pages List Price: $52.95 Available on Amazon site for around $39 More details and availability
	Protecting Our Litvak Heritage (A History of 50 Jewish Communities in Lithuania) Written by Josef Rosin Introduction by Profesor Dov Levin 488 pages, 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 Inches List Price: $65 Available on Amazon site for around $47 More details and availability
Memoir
	Flight to Survival [a companion to the Czestochowa book] Wloclawek - Warszawa Czestochowa...Eretz-Yisrael 1939 to 1945 A Personal Narrative By Peninah Cypkewicz-Rosin Editor: Nancy Lefkowitz Published by JewishGen 200 pages List Price: $41.95 Available on Amazon for $31.88, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Orhei, Moldova
	Orheyev Alive and Destroyed; Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Orhei, Moldova Original in Hebrew Edited by Y. Spivak Published in Tel Aviv, 1959 Translation coordinated by Terry Lasky 520 pages with all images in hard cover List price: $63.95 Available at Amazon for $47, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland
	Memorial (Yizkor) Book of the Jewish Community of Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish The Hebrew section editor: Aba Gordin The Yiddish section editor: M. Gelbart 892 pages, 6.69" by 9.61", hard cover, including all photos and other images List price: $69.95 Available at Amazon for $51, may have lower prices elsewhere More details and availability
Rozhnyativ, Ukraine
	Rozniatow Memorial Book Original written in Hebrew, Yiddish and English Edited by Shimon Kanc Published in Tel Aviv, 1974 Translation Project Coordinator and Book Layout: Thomas Weiss 512 pages, 8.5" by 11", hard cover, including all photos and other images List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $44 More details and availability
Ruzhany, Belarus
	Rozana: a Memorial to the Ruzhinoy Jewish Community Original written in Hebrew and Yiddish Collected and Edited by Mayer Sokolowsky Supplementary chapters in Yiddish by Joseph Abramovitsch Translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish by Jerrold Landau Co-Editors, Edie Taylor and Brian Zakem 458 pages, 6.69" by 9.61", hard cover, including all photos and other images List Price: $59.95 Available on Amazon for around $46 More details and availability
Zgierz, Poland
	The Book of Zgierz- An Eternal Memorial for a Jewish Community in Poland Original Book Edited by David Shtockfish, Sh Kanc, Z. Fisher Translated by Jerrold Landau English Edition Coordinated and Edited by Jerrold Jacobs Published by JewishGen 784 pages List Price: $74.95 Available on Amazon for $54.71 More details and availability

“The Yizkor-Books-In-Print project is indeed an extremely important project.”
Professor David Patterson
Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies University of Texas at Dallas

Upon finding out that the Ohrei Yizkor Book was published and available, one researcher wrote:
“I have been waiting 33 years since I first came across that book in the New York Public Library and was unable to read it because I couldn't understand Yiddish. Thanks. Will purchase it.”

The project will use the “Print on Demand” model, which uses the latest technology for being able to print even single books on demand and ship to individual buyers, without requiring runs of hundreds of books. Hence here is no minimum requirement of number of books to be ordered, nor is there a storage problem, nor an unsold books problem. It is ideal for our situation with a limited audience. Books are in black and white, whereas the covers are in color and often are replicas of the covers of the original Hebrew and Yiddish Yizkor Books.

We will be printing only fully translated books for which we have permission from the copyright holder of the original Yiddish or Hebrew book to print the translation. If you are interested in getting your book in the queue for processing to be printed and published, first you must make sure that the Yizkor book project either already has that permission to publish or that you can get it - for clarifications on these issues, please contact Lance Ackerfeld . Desirable, but not necessary are higher resolution scans (300 dpi or preferably 600 dpi) of the images from the book than were used for the on-line version (72 dpi). When you have satisfied these requirements, then please contact Joel Alpert, Project Coordinator.

In order to accomplish this task, we are looking for talented people who are willing to volunteer to make this effort happen. Below we list the people and talents we are looking for. We want to create a team of several people with each of the talents. We would assign one of each of the volunteer categories below to a book, with the exception of the Document Coordinator, Cover Editor and Publicity Specialist - one or two each for the whole project. We list the tasks with the highest needs at the top. If you can help, we'd appreciate your efforts in the task.

Most likely the project coordinator of the Yizkor book website for that community. If necessary, obtain permissions necessary to publixh the book from the organization or person holding the copyright on the original Hebrew/Yiddish Yizkor book. Create a new Preface and Acknowledgements, Credits etc. appropriate to the publishing of the book in English.

We will receive PDF files of scans of the original Yizkor books from the National Yiddish Book Center (see announcement above). We need volunteers who can process the PDF files (600 dpi resolution) to extract the images of the photos and maps and illustrations to create individual JPEG files so that they can then be inserted into the text of the books in the proper place. Volunteers will need to have the Photoshop or similar software to accomplish the task. This will enable us to produce high quality images for the books.

Take files from the Yizkor Book website and copy into MS WORD files for each book chapter. Not necessary to proof read the material. We are printing the books as they appear on the Yizkor Books Project pages. Format the files according to a template supplied changing headings, image captions, etc into a standard format. Imbed the images from the Image Coordinator in the proper place in the text. Edit the material so that the layout has images in a place near the reference to the image. Re-editing and proof reading of material not expected.

Submit application for Copyright, Library of Congress Number, ISBN number. Keep track of submittals and responses. Currently filled, however backup maybe required.

Create the cover using Photo Shop of some other software likely using a scan of the original Yizkor Book cover and modifying it by inserting English, laying it out on a provided template; or possibly creating a totally new cover. One or several people to do this for the whole project.

Deal with publicity for books. Send out announcements to all researchers signed up for each community covered in the book to be published. Develop list of libraries, university libraries with Judaic collections, Holocaust Memorials, temple libraries, etc. that would likely be interested in purchasing copies of the “Yizkor Books in Print.” Send off periodic announcements to these institutions about new Yizkor books now available. One person or several people to do this for the whole project.

If you feel that you are able to take on one of these tasks, please contact the “Yizkor Books in Print” Coordinator – Joel Alpert

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