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Yiddishland Hardcover – October 1, 1999

by Gerard Silvain (Author), Henri Minczeles (Author), Donna Wiemann (Editor)

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This unique book is an unforgettable journey into the heart of Yiddishland, a mythical and real land that has never appeared on a map of the world, but whose frontiers have forged rivers, crossed oceans and spanned continents. Although, tragically, it no longer exists, Yiddishland - a huge area that stretched from Poland to the Ukraine, Belorussia, Romania, Bessarabia, Eastern Hungary and the Baltic States - lives on through the telling imagery of the humble postcard.

Gleaned from the millions preserved in attics, trunks and Jewish family archives all over the world, this remarkable collection brings to life the immutable rhythm of the shtetl. The pages are alive with rabbis, professional marriage brokers, itinerant water carriers, bright-eyed yeshivot students, porters, beggars and brilliant intellectuals, plus synagogues, hospitals, cemeteries and those sadly unavoidable scenes of suffering and persecution. The humble trades that kept entire populations from starving to death are shown in minute detail.

Poignant, touching, and alarming these fleeting moments, frozen in time, portray a civilization which might otherwise have been forgotten. They enable us to relive the past, incite us to remember and record for eternity the history and the legend that is Yiddishland.

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584 pages
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English
Publisher

Gingko Pr Inc
Publication date

October 1, 1999
Dimensions

6 x 1.75 x 8 inches
ISBN-10

1584230185
ISBN-13

978-1584230182
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gingko Pr Inc; First English Edition (October 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 584 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1584230185
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1584230182
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.75 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,181,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,858 in Jewish Historical Fiction
- #104,979 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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Diane Gauley

A Heartbreakingly Beautiful Book

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2018

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What a great treasure, this book! I feel so grateful to have it. A collection of incredible photos that transports one back to a time and place that, tragically, exists no longer. This book is a deeply loving tribute to the Blessed Memory of all those Yiddish souls captured in its pages. This is a book to be given a place of honour and treasured for generations to come. “A Groysn Dank” to the remarkable people who created this book!!

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Мартин

There was once a world....

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2013

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This book is wonderful, terrible, joyous, sad.... All of the things you would expect in a book that chronicles a world we lost to hatred. Yiddish all but disappeared in many families after the war and had no war happened, this is where many of us would be, for better or worse, good or bad.

Yiddishland is what we were. How we lived. What our life was.......before the world consumed us.

If you are Jewish and have connections to Eastern Europe (Russian, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania etc) then this book needs to be on your books shelves and take down and looked through once in a while so we will remember who are, where we came from, who came before us and what could be were it not for hatred allowed to run amok.

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Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2018

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C. Shepko

A marvelous book

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2009

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I finally found this book at a reasonable price from this seller. It is an excellent book--a visual record of lost people. Delivery was prompt and the book was in the condition described. I would be happy to buy from this dealer again.

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Svein Fornes

this book is a great discovery!

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015

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If you are interested in history, not only the history of Eastern Europe and not only jewish history but the history of Europe, this book is a great discovery!

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Benjamin Vinar

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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2014

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The destroyed Jews of Europe in pictures.

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Kindle Customer

Heart-wrenching panorama

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014

These images collected, salvaged, commemorate a courageous, resilient people, generations of whom lived in isolated, marginalized communities; the extended populations of the Jewish “Pale.” There are page after page, so many photos of ragged humans, so many bare-footed, unable to afford shoes. Their homes are no more than wooden hovels, without plumbing, water sourced and carried from a common well or street pump. “Water carriers” are seen working at their “trade,” a job description for a service of necessity. Yet these people maintained cohesive communities bound together by faith and tradition. A heart-wrenching panorama of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before its annihilation by the Nazis. Highly recommended for those interested in Jewish history of the shetel not as represented in dramatized productions like “Fiddler on the Roof,” but in documented photographic reality.

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Barbara Cohen

A Book of Ravishing Beauty

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2003

This extraordinary book describes that place known as Yiddishland through a f a collection of postcards from many geographical and cultural corners of the world. Whether Yiddishland is real or mythical is unimportant: what is significant is that these photographs depict a place which no longer exists, but which was held together by the common thread of the Yiddish language. Each photograph is more stunning than the next with a never before seen images of the people, places and things that make up the Yiddish culture. Tears actually welled up when looking at some of these photos as I realized that this beautiful place from our pasts exists no more except here in these pages. This is a book is a great gift idea, and a must for anyone interested in photography, Yiddish culture or just plan beauty. I am so very happy that someone had the skill and courage to undergo this amazing project which speaks like a sparkling work of art.

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Xavier Perez-Pons

wonderful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2015

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Through this book you can transfer yourself to another world and be moved with people who lived just with the essential things of life. They knew suffering and therefore real joy.

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