In the decades after the Holocaust, survivors created hundreds of memorial books for destroyed Jewish towns across Eastern Europe. Written in Hebrew and Yiddish these volumes preserved the memories of communities that had been annihilated.

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Paper Tombs explores how these books function as acts of collective remembrance,  preserving the worlds that once existed and shaping how later generations understand Jewish life before the Holocaust.

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NOW AVAILABLE at NYU Press, Amazon, B&N, and Bookshop.org

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“This intimate history testifies to the fullness of prewar Jewish life and to the people… who gave something of themselves to preserve its memory."

~Jewish Book Council

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"A moving testimony to a lost world and a goad to keep its memory alive.”  

~Kirkus Reviews

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Learn more about Paper Tombs.