Where Once We Walked

Where Once We Walked (full title: Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in The Holocaust), compiled by noted genealogist Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon, is a gazetteer of 37,000 town names in Central and Eastern Europe focusing on those with Jewish populations in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries and most of whose Jewish communities were almost or completely destroyed during The Holocaust.

Where Once We Walked
First edition
AuthorGary Mokotoff, Sallyann Amdur Sack
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genregenealogy
PublisherAvotaynu Inc.
Publication date
1991
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages514
ISBN1-886223-15-7
OCLC50768697
940/.04924/00254 21
LC ClassDS135.E83 M65 2002

Overview

The book includes a cross-referenced listing of some 23,000 towns (plus alternate names), with the contemporary spelling being primary, associated country (according to contemporary borders), orientation and distance in kilometers from the country's capital city, and map coordinates. The main list is followed by an additional listing organized according to a phonetic index based on the Daitch–Mokotoff Soundex system.[1]

Revised edition

A second, revised edition (2002), expanded with additional entries and alternate names, provides updated spellings reflecting current geopolitical naming conventions.[2] Judaica Librarianship called Where Once We Walked, "the de facto print gazetteer of the shtetlekh of the Pale of Settlement."[3]

See also

References
  1. Mokotoff, Gary; Amdur Sack, Sallyann (1991). Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust (first ed.). Teaneck, N.J.: Avotaynu. ISBN 0-9626373-1-9.
  2. Mokotoff, Gary; Amdur Sack, Sallyann (2002). Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust (second, revised ed.). Bergenfield, N.J.: Avotaynu. ISBN 1-886223-15-7.
  3. Dwoskin, Beth (2009). "Genealogy in the Jewish Library: An Update". Judaica Librarianship. 15: 13. doi:10.14263/2330-2976.1044. ProQuest 876181053.
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