9780962637315 - Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust (Avotaynu monograph series) de Mokotoff, Gary; Sack, Sallyann Amdur (8 résultats)

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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Etat : good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a minor lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends with slighter wear to the cover corners, and a hint of faint smudging to the edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is a solid, bright, Very Good copy in a like dust jacket, which has bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, faint rubbing with mild edge wear to the covers, and a hint of sunning to the spine.

hardcover. Etat : Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First edition. First printing [stated]. xviii, [2], 514 p. Maps. References. Select Bibliography. Illustrations. Listing of Towns; Phonetic Index of the 37, 00 town names in the book. This work documents more than 21, 000 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. It contains more than 15, 000 alternate town names by which the localities were known, including Yiddish names. From Wikipedia: "Gary Mokotoff ( born April 26, 1937 ) is an American genealogist who focuses primarily on Jewish genealogy. He is the first person to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies for which he was president (1989 1995). He is the author/coauthor of a number of books including Where Once We Walked, a gazetteer which provides information about 23, 500 towns (citing 37, 000 place names) in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust, How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust, and Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy. He was co-editor of Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy. Mokotoff is also known for his application of computers to genealogy. Among his accomplishments is co-authorship of the Daitch Mokotoff Soundex System; the JewishGen Family Finder, a database of ancestral towns and surnames being researched by some 84, 000[4] Jewish genealogists throughout the world and the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index. He is co-owner of Avotaynu, a company that publishes books of interest to Jewish genealogical researchers as well as the journal Avotaynu. He is/was on the Board of Directors of a number of organizations including the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Federation of Genealogical Societies, Association of Professional Genealogists, Jewish Book Council, Association of Jewish Book Publishers, and JewishGen. He was a pioneer of the computer software industry, joining IBM in 1959. He developed systems software that IBM supplied with its early commercial computer, the IBM 1401." From an on-line posting: "Sallyann Amdur Sack, PhD, is the only genealogist listed in Jewish Women in America. She was instrumental in founding the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy, Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington, International Associaiton of Jewish Genealogical Societies, and Avotaynu. Dr. Sack has chaired or co-chaired six of the annual conferences on Jewish Genealogy, authored seven books of use to genealogists and has consulted on numerous projects. ".

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Second Printing. xxviii, [2], 514 pages. Several black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Documents more than 21,000 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. An exceptionally clear and easy to use reference work which will save enormous research time and frustration for students of this subject. For all interested in European place names and this period of history, it instantly becomes an invaluable and indispensable standard reference work." - dust jacket. Former library copy with minimal markings and light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy.