From a ruined garden: The memorial books of Polish Jewry

by Jack Kugelmass (Editor), Jonathan Boyarin (Editor)

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. 26 photos.

Genres: Judaism

275 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Hank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a light read by any means but one of the more impressionable books I read in a course on Holocaust memory.