Memorial Book of Biala Podlaska - Bog af M. J. Feigenbaum - Hardback

Memorial Book of Biala Podlaska - M. J. Feigenbaum

An epic record of the rise and eventual ruin of the Jewish Community of Biala Podlaska, this sweeping Yizkor Memorial Book traces the town's chaotic journey through history. Founded at the end of the 15th century in the Lithuanian state, it subsequently moved between Poland and Austria in the early 19th century, and finally shuttled between Russia, Germany and back to Poland in the years surrounding the World Wars. As early as 1621, there was evidence of a well-established Jewish settlement of..