Selected Reading List: Jewish Life in the Baltic States and 1

Related Reading for Further Study about the History of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe:

Shaul Stampfer, Families, Rabbis and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth- Century Eastern Europe. Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, 2014.

Heiko Haumann, A History of East European . Budapest: Central European University Press. 2003.

Jeffery Schandler, Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History. Published by Rutgers University Press. 2013.

Lucy Davidowicz, The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe. Jason Aronson, Inc. 1989.

Gershon David Hundert, Jews in - in the Eighteenth Century. University of California Press, 2006.

Zvi Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present. Indiana University Press, 2001.

Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, , Lithuania, Belarus 1569- 1999. Yale University Press. 2004.

ChaeRan Freeze and Sarunas Liekas. Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania Since 1772. Oxford, U.K.: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013.

Zvi Gitelman, The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics: Bundism and Zionism in Eastern Europe. University of Pittsburg Press. 2003.

Yohanah Petrovsky-Sternen, The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in Europe. Princeton University Press. 2014.

Glenn Dynner, Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland. Publish by Oxford University Press. 2013.

Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was A World: A 900 year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok. Published by Back Bay Books. 1998.

Nathaniel Deutsch, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement. Published by Harvard University Press. 2011.

Elissa Bemporad, Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk. Published by Indiana University Press. 2013. Selected Reading List: Jewish Life in the Baltic States and Belarus 2

Jurgita Siauciunaitė-Verbickiene and Larisa Lempertienė, Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe: Day-to-Day History. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars. 2007.

Albert Kaganovitch, The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2013.

Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran (Eds.), Culture Front. Representing Jews in Eastern Europe, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir, & Israel Bartal (Eds), Anti-Jewish Violence. Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2011

Related Reading for Further Study about World War II and :

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Basic Books, 2010

Waitman Wade Boern., Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Harvard University Press. 2014

Nancy Wright Beasley, Izzy's Fire: Finding Humanity in the Holocaust. Palari Publishing. 2008.

Alfonsas Eidintas and Amos Eiren, Jews, Lithuania, and the Holocaust. Versus Aureus. 2003.

Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust. Rosetta Books. 2014.

Doris Bergen, The Holocaust: A Concise History. Rowman and Littlefield. 2009.

Phyllis Goldstein and Harold Evans, A Convenient Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism. Facing History and Ourselves. 2011.

Dennis Klein. Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. New York: Bullfinch Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1997.

Andrew Ezergailis, The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944: The Missing Center. Riga: The Historical Institute of Latvia in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1996.

Joshua Rubenstein & Ilya Altman, The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in German- Occupied Soviet Territories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2008.

Max Kaufmann, M, The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia (G. Schneider and E.R. Wiehn trans.). Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre. 2010.

Bernhard Press, The Murder of the Jews in Latvia, 1941-1945. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 2000. Selected Reading List: Jewish Life in the Baltic States and Belarus 3

John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic (eds.) Bringing the dark past to light : the reception of the Holocaust in postcommunist Europe. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Lucy Dawidowicz, 1986. The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945. NY: Bantam Books., pp. 197- 222

Related Reading for Further Study about Memory Politics and Contemporary Society in Eastern Europe

The European Union Agency for Human Rights, Discover the Past for the Future: The Role of Historical Sites and Museums in Holocaust Education and Human Rights education in the EU. Available for download at http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2010/discover-past-future-role- historical-sites-and-museums-holocaust-education-and

Jeffery Veidlinger, In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine. Indiana University Press. 2013.

Father Patrick Desbois, The Holocaust by Bullets. Palgrave McMillian. 2009.

Anton Weiss-Wendt. Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. Syracuse University Press. 2009.

Andrew Wilson. Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship. Yale University Press. 2011.

Dovile Budryte. Taming Nationalism: Political Community Building in the post-Soviet Baltic States. Ashgate. 2005.

James E. Young. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. Yale University Press. 1994

Aldis Purs. Baltic Facades. Reaktion Books - Contemporary Worlds. 2012.

Violeta Davoliute. The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War. Routledge, 2013.