Dear Friends, The Yizkor-Books-in-Print Project of www.jewishgen.org is proud to announce the publication of the 12th book in our series of Yizkor Book translations, Dzialoshitz (Dzialoszyce).
Dzialoszyce is a small town in southeastern Poland, 27 miles northeast of Kraków. The first Jews arrived there in the 16th century. By 1820, 75 percent of the town's 1700 residents were Jews; in the late 1930s, more than 80 percent of its 8,000 residents were Jewish. Religious life centered around the beautiful town synagogue and the small Hasidic houses of prayer. Communal life was organized through the kahal [community council] and khevres [societies] with various functions. In the interwar period, theater productions and sports events were popular. Zionist organizations sprang up and trained young people to be pioneers; a sizeable number emigrated to Palestine. During the war, mass killings and deportations virtually destroyed the Jewish community. Some were sent to their deaths at the Belzec camp, others to the Kraków ghetto and then to Plaszów. Today, the formerly Jewish town has no Jews and only 1200 inhabitants. The volunteers involved in this project are translating a large number of books from Hebrew or Yiddish to English and YBIP (Yizkor Books in Print) is publishing them in hard cover in a similar format with illustrations. All of our books are available on Amazon at discounted prices. Please go to our web site for more information on the books published so far: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html Brzeziny, Poland Czestochowa, Poland Orheyev Alive and Destroyed: Memorial Book of the Jewish Community of Orhei, Moldova Rozana: a Memorial to the Ruzhinoy Jewish Community (Belarus) The Book of Zgierz: An Eternal Memorial for a Jewish Community in Poland Jurbarkas (Yarburg) Lithuania Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume I (A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania) Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - Volume II (A History of 21 Jewish Communities in Lithuania) Protecting Our Litvak Heritage - (A History of 50 Jewish Communities in Lithuania) Flight to Survival [A companion to The Destruction of Czestochowa.] Belzec - Stepping Stone to Genocide - A description of the Holocaust. Volumes upcoming shortly include the following: Ostrov-Mazovyetsk (Ostrów Mazowiecka), Poland Ciechanow, Poland Jaslo, Poland Novogrudok (Navahrudak), Belarus Horodenka, Ukraine Yampol, Ukraine Buchach, Ukraine Rozhnyativ, Ukraine Bacau,Iasi and Podu Iloaiei, Romania Sandra Hirschhorn Publicity Specialist, Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project of JewishGen, Inc. Monroe Township, NJ
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