From a ruined garden
Subtitle: the memorial books of Polish Jewry
By: edited and translated by Jack Kugelmass and Jonathan Boyarin ; with geographical index and bibliography by Zachary M. Baker.
Contributors: Kugelmass, Jack.; Boyarin, Jonathan.; Baker, Zachary M.; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Edition: 2nd, expanded ed.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Social life and customs; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland; Memorial books (Holocaust); Poland -- Ethnic relations
Description: In the years after World War II, Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who had made their way to the Americas and Israel compiled memorial books to preserve the memory of their destroyed communities. From a Ruined Garden gathers some 77 sections from the nearly 1,000 memorial books published. The texts describe daily life in the shtetl as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C."