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REFERENCES

 

HISTORICAL & ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, New York
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/


United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington
http://www.ushmm.org


Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
http://www1.yadvashem.org

 

MUSIC FROM THE HOLOCAUST

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington
http://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/music/detail.php?content=moor


YIVO Institute of Jewish Research, New York
Flam, Gila. "Holocaust: Music and the Holocaust." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 13 December 2010. 8 March 2012
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Holocaust/Music_and_the_Holocaust


Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/music/vilna.asp


Classic Online Website:
http://www.classicsonline.com/composerbio/Shmerke_Kaczerginski/


Music and the Holocaust Website:
http://holocaustmusic.ort.org

http://holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/vilna/kaczerginskishmerke/

 

BOOKS & ARTICLES

Solon Beinfeld. The Cultural life of the Vilna ghetto In Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual 1, ed. Alex Grobman. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1983.

Eleanor Mlotek and Malke Gottlieb. We Are Here: Songs of the Holocaust. New York: Workmen’s Circle, 1983.

The Undying Flame: Ballads and Songs of the Holocaust
edited by Jerry Silverman, 2002

Kalisch, S. & Meister, B., 1985. Yes, We Sang! Songs of the Ghettos and Concentration Camps, New York: Harper and Row.

Botwinik, D. From Holocaust to Life: New Yiddish Songs, 2010.

Wisse, Ruth. The Poet from Vilna - Number 2, Summer 2010
http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/the-poet-from-vilna


Benjamin Harshav, A. Sutzkever: Selected Poetry and Prose (Berkeley, 1991)

Wisse, Ruth, The Ghetto Poems of Abraham Sutzkever, Jewish Book Annual 36 (1978–1979): 26–36, reprinted in Jewish Book Annual 54 (1996–1997): 95–106.

David E. Fishman, Embers Plucked from the Fire: The Rescue of Jewish Cultural Treasures in Vilna (rev. ed., New York, 2010).

 

WEBSITES

Jewish Review of Books
http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com


Vilna (article in the USHMM’s Holocaust Encyclopedia)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005173


Sutzkever's Ghetto Poetry by Professor Ruth Wisse
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/video/sutzkevers-ghetto-poetry

Additional discussions by Professor Wisse can be found at: http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/category/categories/ruth-wisse?page=1

Holocaust Survivors’
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/