Take your research to the next level with Project Zikaron, a project of Touro University Libraries (New York), a new information portal for the study of the local history of thousands of Jewish communities throughout the world, with a concentration on those destroyed in Europe under Nazi aggression. Search for the name of a city, town, or village (using its current, former, or Yiddish name) to access relevant books, articles, manuscripts, documents, and internet resources. For the first time, Project Zikaron (zikaron means “memory” in Hebrew) is making these materials easily accessible with the goal of reviving the memory of these communities and the people who inhabited them. We are constantly adding and accepting new material (and quality translations).
Our historical resources (books, articles and manuscripts) are categorized by town name.
Town Search (Search 15,612 places worldwide, indexed with over 33,892 variant names)
Full-Text Search Search the growing full-text collection (currently over 1,150,000 pages) of books, articles, documents, manuscripts, and transcriptions in over 25 languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, French, Russian, etc.
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