The Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania - Translation and Update

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Summary: The Wonderful Book on Yurburg
Review: I found this book extremely moving and most informative. I have been to Lithuania twice, I've walked on the streets of Yurburg, I've done alot of genealogy, however, I had never before seen this wonderful photo of the brother of my great grandfather. This book corroborated much of what I knew and gave me alot of information I had not been able to learn, either from the archives in New York, or even from the archives in Vilna. The book is a treasure and I am most grateful to Joel Alpert.

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Summary: A Touching Rememberance
Review: Joel Alpert has produced a legacy to be handed down from generation to generation. When your immigrant family members are gone and the stories are buried with them, you can turn to this book and remember what it must have been like to live in a village in Lithuania during those good and bad days.

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Summary: Jurburg: a Definitive Yitzkor Book
Review: Joel Alpert has set a new benchmark for Yitzkor books and memorial projects with his editing of this work. The abundance of photos, records, personal accounts, and other research materials are well organized. The translation of original Yiddish and Hebrew first person narratives and memories is valuable for future generations and researchers who may lack Yiddish and Hebrew reading skills. As for families whose ancestors came from Yurburg, this book is a must for their children. It is a blessing of memories for them. The work also can be used as an ongoing and living project for families of Jurburg descent. The book has openned up doors of research in finding unknown relatives and in putting together puzzles of our own family history. It may be worth while for other older Yitzkor books to be re-edited, translated and expanded in the fashion of Joel Alpert. This book is a must read and a model for any Yitzkor yet to be published.

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Summary: A Remarkable Story
Review: This is a wonderful book. Imagine my surprise to find a book on the Internet of the memories of inhabitants of Jurbarkas, my father's childhood town in Lithuania! The book was mostly in Hebrew, but a partial translation in English was available on the Internet for anyone to read. Over the last decade, Joel Alpert arranged for the book's complete English translation and placed it on the Internet. Mr. Alpert has also added additional information and photographs from his extended family and others and assembled it into an easy-to-read, 737-page text. The text includes a 1907 census of Jewish landowners in Jurbarkas and a map plotting their properties. There's also a University of Vilnius bachelor's thesis about the Holocaust in Jurbarkas, written by Ruta Puisyte that lists some of the victims and perpetrators of the destruction of Jurbarkas' Jewish community in September 1941. I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in the Jewish experience in Lithuania or during the Holocaust.

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Summary: A Remarkable Story
Review: This is a wonderful book. Imagine my surprise to find a book on the Internet of the memories of inhabitants of Jurbarkas, my father's childhood town in Lithuania! The book was mostly in Hebrew, but a partial translation in English was available on the Internet for anyone to read. Over the last decade, Joel Alpert arranged for the book's complete English translation and placed it on the Internet. Mr. Alpert has also added additional information and photographs from his extended family and others and assembled it into an easy-to-read, 737-page text. The text includes a 1907 census of Jewish landowners in Jurbarkas and a map plotting their properties. There's also a University of Vilnius bachelor's thesis about the Holocaust in Jurbarkas, written by Ruta Puisyte that lists some of the victims and perpetrators of the destruction of Jurbarkas' Jewish community in September 1941. I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in the Jewish experience in Lithuania or during the Holocaust.