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including Ukrainian and Molodovan
archivists; Dr. Zvi Gitelman of the
University of Michigan on the histori-
cal background of the Jews of these
nly 10 years ago, a book like
areas; and local experts on the current
Miriam Wiener's latest work
status of the Jewish communities.
would have been unthink-
Michael Berenbaum, former president
able. Jewish Roots in Ukraine
and CEO of the Survivors of the
and Moldova: Pages from the Past and
Shoah Visual History Foundation,
Archival Inventories (Routes to Roots
wrote the introduction.
Foundation Inc. and YIVO Institute
"Only one who has worked in these
for Jewish Research; $60) is, among
archives and with these
other things, a register of
people can understand the
more than 5,000 surviv-
Miriam Weiner: "I am
magnitude of her achieve-
ing records about Jewish
overwhelmed with the
ment," Berenbaum writes.
life in close to 1,400
enormity of the job o f
Weiner, a genealogist,
cities and villages where
rebuilding the Jewis
author and lecturer who
millions of Jews lived.
community in these
runs "Routes to Roots," a
These documents, of
countries, and at the
company
offering archival
great interest to genealo-
same time, IM thrilled
research
in
Poland,
gists and others tracing
that IM seeing it."
Ukraine, Moldova and
the Jewish past, are held
Belarus as well as cus-
in archives that were
tomized tours, says that more than 75
closed to the public until 1991, when
percent of world Jewry can claim at
Ukraine and Moldova declared their
least one grandparent of Russian ances-
independence.
try. The book feels like a tap on the
The 600-page book, with more
shoulder from a lost grandparent to find
than 1,200 graphics including color
out more about a life that is no more.
photographs, maps, reproductions of
For more than 80 towns in Ukraine
antique postcards and actual docu-
and Moldova, she presents photograph-
ments, is also a travel guide to Jewish
ic spreads, with scenes of the town cen-
sites in the area and a portrait of
ters, synagogues and many cemeteries;
Jewish life, past and present. Included
in some cases pre-Holocaust and cur-
are essays by Wiener and others,

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