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Subject: [EURO-JEWISH-L] Re: EURO-JEWISH-D Digest V99 #19
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:27:39 EST
Dear People,
Yisroel Meier Brill asked this morning (99/01/14 whether anyone else was
interested in the town of Olyka.
I suggest that he go to Jewishgen, at http://www.jewishgen.org, and look
through its database of discussion group archives, by typing in "Olyka" in the
search engine for these archives. He is more likely to find people interested
in Olyka at Jewishgen than through this mail group.
Also, in case he doesn't know this, there is a Yizkor (memorial book)
for Olyka:
Pinkas ha-kehilah Olyka; sefer yiskor (Memorial Book of the Community of
Olyka).. Edited by Natan Livneh.Tel.Aviv, Olyka Society, 1972, 397 pp.,
illus.. In Hebrew and Yiddish.
I don't know whether the Olyka Society still functions in Israel. It is
not listed in the list I have of "Landsmanschafts" or Compatriot Societies.
But if Mr. Brill has contacts in Israel he should write to find out whethere
it still exists.
It has been my experience that buying a yizkor book directly from the
Society or Committee which produced the book is far less expensive than buying
it from a bookstore. (A bookstore's asking price for a yizkor book I wanted
was $75.00 but I was able to get it for $14.50 plus postage. However,
sometimes a Society or Committee will request a "donation" in addition to the
price it charges for its yizkor book, and the suggested amount of the
"donation" can be quite high. But no one will hold a gun to the book
purchaser's head to get that donation!
Copies of Olyka Yizkor book are in the Yizkor collections of Yale (call
number Hbr06763m), and UCLA (call number DS 135 R93 053). Certainly YIVO
would have a copy as well but YIVO is closed now and won't reopen in its new
location in New York for several months. Copies may also be in the
collections of other libraries like those of Holocaust Centers in the US and
abroad. I do not know, however, whether Mr. Brill can ask for a copy through
an interlibrary loan.
Naomi
99/01/14
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