This year I completed and self-published a book about my grandmother, entitled "Tsiveh Gordin/Sylvia Berman", who was born and grew up in Rezekne (Rezhitsa) and emigrated to the U.S. in 1911, to marry my grandfather, Abraham (Buchmuz) Berman, who was also born in Rezekne. I researched this book for five years, including a trip to Latvia and St. Petersburg to look up family records, general documents on Rezekne, and meet a second cousin.
I collected a lot of information over those years, including registry documents and many photographs from government archives, Holocaust survivor documents from Israel, and videotapes made by a Latvian, who interviewed a few Jews remaining in Rezekne, including in the cemetary. Where would be the best place to deposit all this information I've collected, and my book? I printed off only enough copies (50) of the book for my family and have none left, but do have about 200 covers printed and have the book on disk. There are about 40 pages of text, including my grandmother's journal entries when she returned to Rezekne, Riga and St. Petersburg to visit her family in 1934, my own writing about my trip there in July 2000 and my memories of growing up with my grandmother, tape transcripts of my grandmother remembering details of her childhood and immigrant life in the U.S., tributes and memories about my grandmother from her whole family, and a family tree. There are about 40 more pages of photographs; the oldest ones are of my grandmother's father and uncle, dated in the 1890's. I want very much to spread this book, and the research information I've collected, in the world Jewish community. Please advise. Tela Zasloff 33 McCauley Lane Williamstown, MA 01267 (413) 458-4846 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
