Take your research to the next level with Project Zikaron, an initiative of Touro University Libraries, 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.
Our historical resources (books, articles and manuscripts) are categorized by town name.
Town Search (Search 16,070 places worldwide, indexed with over 34,771 variant names)
Full-Text Search Search the growing full-text collection (currently over 1,200,000 pages) of books, articles, documents, manuscripts, and transcriptions in over 25 languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, French, Russian, etc.
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Includes books and articles about Jewish cemeteries which often document all or some of the tombstone inscriptions. Many of the cemeteries were subsequently destroyed during WWII. Also includes published Hevrah Kadishah (Jewish burial society) ledgers.
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