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Miriam Weiner

Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories (The Jewish Genealogy Series) Hardcover – July 1, 1999

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600 pages
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Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots
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July 1, 1999
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9 x 1.75 x 11.5 inches
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0965650812
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978-0965650816
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"From earliest dawn, mankind has been driven by the insatiable urge to assure proof of his presence and continuity by leaving a record, from cave drawings to the historical notes buried under the Warsaw Ghetto in World WarII. Cast out to an often foreboding world, the Jewish people have become masters of the archives.

Between the world wars, the Soviet Union isolated its Jewish minority. They were shorn of their synagogues, schools, books and most vestiges of Jewish life. We did not know if a Jewish community still existed. As a result of the Holocaust and the wars, documentation became more and more difficult to come by.

Miriam Weiner, a courageous and brilliant historian and archivist, has haunted the archives of Eastern Europe, painstakingly piecing together the world that was. Here she has memorialized hundreds of shtetls and towns through document examples and photographs. Her earlier book on Polish Jewry alerted us to the fact that she was equal to the task. "Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova" is part of a masterwork of love and remembrance, so important to me and my children." -- Leon Uris, author of "Exodus"

"Miriam Weiner's "Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova" is an invaluable source book replete with photographs, documents and archival inventories of a world that should be of vital interest to all who treasure the past and want to keep vivid our memories of it." -- Chaim Potok, author of "The Chosen"

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots; 1St Edition (July 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0965650812
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0965650816
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 1.75 x 11.5 inches

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William Bronston, MD

Haunting Gathering!

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This is a unique and haunting work. Miriam Weiner is one of the rare souls who believe that memory and family history or indispensable to human society, personal identity, fulfilment and maybe the passage of meaning through to our children. This is monumental work filled with the most astounding collection of hundreds of photographs of people, places, buildings, collected from among the circumscribed community of Jewish peoples in the Ukraine and Moldova. Of course that is where my mother and father's parents derived which rivets me even more urgently to the encyclopedic information. They are dead now. My cousins, now in their late 60s and 70s, and mostly living in Paris, have no information from their war, revolution and pogrom traumatized parents, long gone, as the tumult of life in the late 19th and early 20th Century was overwhelming. Our parents shut off memory and stories from fear and safety, and only marginally and apocryphally shared tidbits with our generation. Thus, Miriam's scholarly and massive search is a work of sublime significance and worth the struggle for those who value knowing and caring about the mystery of family inheritance. Many of us owe a profound debt to her astounding genealogical documentation. When one is searching for a 'personal' connection, the huge information available and the dominant amount of photographic material is initially frustrating and initially distracting...but...at a point, the gestalt of the imagery and information has its humbling impact. All this starts as a reality forgotten, invisible, impossible to engage, remote, lost, sad, amazing, a world of people, styles, struggles, creativity, culture that in many instances shows the bland and flat culture in which we, in the 21st Century, now endure with all our meaningless and infinite consumer goods, comfort culture, alienation, lost histories, fragile identities and limited stories . Finding a copy of this book is an ordeal in itself. Affording it is another hurdle as I found another copy selling for over $700 (!) despite the $60 original 1999 copyrighted book jacket price. But for me, aching about the inability to ask my family, or any acquaintances about our origins, it is a priceless treasure that lavishes a look into a world gone forever. Miriam Weiners work is a service to human kind and a unique gift to those of us whose roots came deep from the drama of the Jewish Shtetls and the Pale.

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Nice book of history and photos from the past

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019

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While this book is full of good information and photos from the past, it is out of date, in this sense. In my research, I had already discovered much of the contents of this book on the internet, on various Jewish, and other websites. Although it did not fit my need for new information on this subject, the book collects the past history all together in one volume, which is is especially useful for those not entirely familiar with the subject.

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Stunning work, of immense blue to those of us ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2016

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Stunning work, of immense blue to those of us with ancestors from the region and interested in exploring genealogy and historic roots.

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Blue Raven

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2017

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A beautiful book, A time travel to old Europe. Very comprehensive.

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Claire

A must have

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016

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The ultimate resource for Eastern European Genealogy. A must have in your own library. Weiner's books are the classic enduring references. Well worth the investment

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