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The following additional resources can provide valuable information on finding a shtetl (town) or a Yizkor book:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Glossary of Yizkor Book Terms

Locating a Shtetl:

• JewishGen's Shtetl Seeker provides Soundex searching of the U.S. Board of Geographic Names database of all centeral and eastern European communities, and gives current name, latitude/longitude, and map location.
• Where Once We Walked: Revised Edition; A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon (Bergenfield NJ: Avotaynu, 2002), locates 23,500 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews resided, and indicates sources of information on each community.
• Shtetl Finder Gazetteer, by Chester G. Cohen (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1989), locates 2,000 major Jewish settlements within the Russian Empire, and provides short descriptions and Yizkor Book names.
• Historical Atlas of East Central Europe, by Paul Robert Magocsi (Seattle & London: Univ. of Washington Press, 1993) describes historical boundary changes for countries and administrative districts in East Central Europe.

Additional Shtetl Information:

• JewishGen ShtetLinks Project provides information and resources on a number of shtetlekh, as provided by JewishGen members.
• JewishGen Family Finder lists genealogists interested in particular shtetlekh.
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is an online index of Jewish vital records for Poland.

Locating Yizkor Books:

• Amherst, MA: National Yiddish Book Center.  Catalog of digitized yizkor book reprints for sale.  www.yiddishbookcenter.org/yizkorbooks
• Boston, MA: Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area, by Warren Blatt (Newton MA: JGS of Greater Boston, 1996).
• Detroit, MI: Memorial Book Collection of the Holocaust Memorial Center, West Bloomfield, MI.
• Israel: A Guide to Genealogical Resources in Israel, Revised Edition, by Sallyann Amdur Sack and the Israel Genealogical Society (Teaneck NJ: Avotaynu, 1995).
• New Haven, CT: Yale University Libraries. Yizkor Books.
• New York, NY: Genealogical Resources in  New York, Revised and Edited by Estelle M. Guzik, (New York: JGS, 2003).
• New York, NY:New York Public Library, Dorot Division.  Online digital images of entire yizkor books.  http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbooksall.cfm
• Portland, OR: Yizkor Books at Congregation Neveh Shalom
• San Francisco, CA: Yizkor Books in the Holocaust Center of Northern California.
• Seattle, WA: Yizkor Books in the Seattle area.
• St. Louis, MO: Yizkor Books in the Special Collections Department, St. Louis County Library.
• Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library.  Online Catalog.
• Washington, DC: Library of Congress.  Online Catalog.

Other Yizkor Book Lists:

• From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry, Second Expanded Edition, edited and translated by Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin, with Geographical Index and Bibliography by Zachary M. Baker. (Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, June 1998).
• How To Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust, by Gary Mokotoff (Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, 1995), Appendix A, Towns with Published Yizkor Books.
• From Generation to Generation, Revised Edition, by Arthur Kurzweil (New York: HarperCollins, 1994).

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