The original title is Sefer Beltsi Basarabia: yad ve-zekher le-yahadut Beltsi. The English title is Balti Basarabia: a memorial of the Jewish community.
This is a collection of articles.
Chapter 1 (pp. 27-87) discusses the history of the Jewish community of Balti from its establishment in the 1780s, including anti-Jewish legislation under Russian rule in the 1880s and under Romanian rule in the interwar period.
Chapters 2-6 deal with Jewish communal life.
Chapter 7 (pp. 560-655) contains testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Balti, relating their experiences during World War II.
There is no known English translation of this Memorial Book. It would be nice to have a complete English translation of this Memorial Book. If there are any additional people who would like to see an English translation of this Memorial Book, please post your comments here.
Copies of this Memorial Book are know to be located in the following libraries:
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, , Israel, Call No: D47(498.5)
- New York Public Library, Jewish Division, New York, NY, United States, Call No: *PXW+(Beltsy) 95-2708
- British Library, London, , England
- Price Library of Judaica, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library, New York, NY, United States, Call No: /88100
- Yale University Library, Judaica Collection, New Haven, CT, United States
The Memorial Book can be purchased at Book Gallery, Jerusalem (Book number: A 200 024) for about US$ 95.00 - http://www.bookgallery.co.il/content/english/bookpageschema.asp?BookPageID=46472 .
The above information was found at http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~yizkor~Bălţi~TE
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