Wonderful Selection of Interesting Books Which Would Otherwise Be Difficult to Find

In Memory of the Latvian Jews who perished fighting the Nazis. (“Rany rubtsuyutsa-bol ostayotsa”, in Russian language), Riga, 1995, 186 pages.

Stories of Latvian Jews at War and  short biographies of about 800 Latvian Jews who perished fighting the Nazis in 1941-1945. Information includes the date and place of birth, the place where he  served and when and where he perished. It is a very good resource for Latvian Jewish genealogy.

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Aleksandrs Feigmanis. Latvian Jewish Intelligentsia Victims of the Holocaust. (One volume in four languages: Latvian, Russian, English and French). Riga, 2006. 120 pages, circa 90 pictures.

Includes detailed biographies of 77 Latvian industrialists, students, musicians, doctors, scientists, rabbis and artists.  With a bibliography, list of personalities, sources and literature. It is Illustrated with portraits of all the heroes of the book, and includes rare paintings and pictures of Riga in 1900-1941. His excellence Andre-Jean Libourel, the current ambassador of France in Riga, called this book, “a true epos* on the pre-war Latvian Jewish community and their tragic destiny”. *Greek = epic poem

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Meyer Meller. Jewish cemeteries in Latvia. (One volume in four languages: Latvian, English, Russian and Hebrew). Riga, 2006. 176 pages.

The book contains a detailed history of each Latvian Jewish community and gives directions to cemetery as well as a description. It contains nice paintings and old pictures of the towns and shtetls and about 600 color pictures from the cemeteries.

It is printed on very good paper with high quality photos and hardbound. The book includes a Summary report of the condition of Jewish cemeteries in Latvia, as well the story on Jewish funeral traditions and instructions on “Reading Hebrew tombstones”.

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Viachka Tselesh. Towns of Belarussia on Old-time Postcards. (In English and Bielorussian.) Minsk, 1998 (first edition) and 2007 (second edition). 255 pages.

The book contains about 600 color and black-white pictures spanning 1890-1915 of Asipovitchi, Bobruisk, Baranovitchi, Borisov, Brest, Volkovisk, Vileika, Vitebsk, Glusk, Glubokoye, Gomel, Gorki, Grodno, Disna, Dobrush, Drissa, Zhlobin, Kobrin,  Kritchev, Lepel, Lida, Mogilev, Mozir, Molodechno, Minsk, Mstislau, Novogrudok, Nesvizh, Orsha, Postavy, Pinsk, Polotzk, Rogachov, Rechitza, Svisloch, Slonim, Slutsk, Smargon, Shchutchin. There are detailed commentaries in English.

There are many pictures of synagogues and Jewish shops. This would be an excellent gift to somebody with Jewish  roots in White Russia.

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Text author and compiler R. Bogdanova. Latvia: Synagogues and Rabbis. 1918-1940. (One volume in four languages: Latvian, English, Russian and Hebrew.  Riga, 2004. 294 pages.

The book presents the history of each Latvian Jewish community and it religious life. There are about 500 old-time pictures of synagogues from every town and hamlet of Latvia dated 1900-1940 with their precise address. For Daugavpils there are 36 rare pictures of synagogues and prayer houses. The book gives full biographies and portraits of rabbis, ritual slaughterers, rabbi`s assistants  and cantors in the whole of Latvia. There is a name index and a geographical index. The book is large and hardbound.

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Pen Yudel (Yuriy) Moiseyevitch, his Life and Works. (It is in Russian, however I will include a photo copy of supplemental information about Yehuda Penn in English.) Minsk, 2006. 175 pages.

It is a true art book, large in size and gorgeously printed. The quality of the paintings and paper is up to date.

Contain more then 120  color paintings of the best Russian-Jewish painter of the early XX century, where he depicted scenes from  everyday life (“Divorce”, “Writing of letter to America”, “Rabbi visits the family of a merchant”)  and Jewish craftsmen(“Glazier”, Watchmaker” etc). Yehuda Penn was born in Novoaleksandrovsk (Zarasai, Lithuania) and was killed in Vitebsk in Belarussia in 1937. In 1870's he worked as a shop sign painter in Dvinsk, in 1880's he studied in the Art Academy in St. Petersburg, in 1887-1900 he frequently resided and painted in Krustpils (Kreutzburg) in Latvia.

Marc Shagall was his student as well as a large number of less known talented  painters.

This book is an excellent gift for those who love art or have roots in  Russia.

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Sauliai (Shavli, Shavel) in Old-Time Postcards.1902-1944.(In Lithuanian language, with an introduction in English). Sauliai, 2006. 387 pages.

A heavy and large hardbound book, printed on the best chalked paper which guaranteed the best print quality. There are about 700 pictures of  Shavli (Sauliai): synagogues, churches, factories, Jewish and Lithuanian shops and types, main sightseeing and administration buildings of the town, schools, scenes of WW1. A book for those who love to dream about time travel. Only 1,000 copies were printed of this rare book.

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Vladimir Likhodeyev. “Synagogues” , album of old-time postcards. Minsk:Riftour. 2007. 240 pages. Hard-cover.

This is my most preferable book which contain 461 old-time postcards of 1880-1944 from China and Russia, Byelorussia and Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Poland and Ukraine, Estonia and Finland, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Moldova. There are pictures from hundreds of towns: Slonim , Pruzhany, Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Moscow, Petersburg, Libau, Kiyev, Derechin, Glubokoye, Kozhan-Gorodok, Lunno, Baku, Balti, Kishinev, Strykow, Wieruszow, Zelechov, Lvov, Goldingen, Parczev, Odessa, Lutsk, Stanislavov, Mstislavl, Skaudvile, Kelme, Palanga etc. etc. The quality of printing is so good that the postcards  look like they are glued into the book. There are pictures not only of buildings, but also of many curious Jewish types.

Newspaper “Bielarussia today” (October 26, 2007) called this book “a true scoop, a very unique event of the year in the domain of publishing”.

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