One of the major strengths of Rabbi Leonard C. Mishkin's personal library, which formed the core collection of the Price Library of Judaica, was its large and important selection of festschriften (jubilee volumes) and memorial books (yizkor books or yizker buchen). The Library has actively sought to acquire such volumes during the past 30 years and continues to seek more material of this nature today.
Festschrift zur Einweihung der neuen Synagoge in Bamberg
A. Eckstein (1857-1935)
1910
136 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
This book commemorates the dedication of the synagogue in 1910. The synagogue was burned to the ground during Kristallnacht (the infamous Nazi attack on Jewish property in Germany, November 9, 1938).
A memorial book commemorating the Jewish communities of Kaminets, Litovsk, Zastavyah in Poland. The narratives were compiled in 1965 by school children in the Bialik Elementary School (Tel Aviv) based on the oral memories of survivors. The work was produced under the supervision of their teacher, Lili Zaitman. This copy is one of 12 held in U.S. Libraries.
