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Jurbarkas, Lithuania

55°04' N, 22°46' E

Russian: Юрбург. Yiddish: יורבורג
46 miles WNW of Kaunas (Kovno), 25 miles SSW of Raseiniai (Rasayn), 23 miles ESE of Tauragė (Tavrig).

Original Title:

Sefer ha-zikaron le-kehilat Yurburg-Lita

English Title:

Memorial book for the community of Yurburg, Lithuania

Editor:

Zevulun Poran

Published:

Jerusalem 1991

Publisher:

Society of Yurburg Emigrants in Israel

Pages: 524 Languages: H,Y

Notes:

The whole Yizkor book has been translated and appears at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Jurbarkas/yurburg.html on JewishGen Yizkor Book Project web site. All photographs from the book are included. Additional material about the town is available via JewishGen's ShtetLinks Project at http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/yurburg/yurburg.html.

Translation:

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Jurbarkas/yurburg.html

Libraries

See WorldCat site: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320570541

Price Library of Judaica, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Call No: Has book

British Library, London, , England, Call No: Has book

New York Public Library, Jewish Division, New York, NY, United States, Call No: *PXW(Jurbarkas) 93-576

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library, New York, NY, United States, Call No: nc

University of Haifa, Haifa, , Israel, Call No: 0538262

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Call No: Has book

Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, Call No: 947.5 Se36j

Yad LeZehava Holocaust Research Institute, Kedumim, , Israel, Call No: 2391

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The Yizkor Book Database

Jurbarkas, Lithuania

55°04' N, 22°46' E