Brest Yizkor Books

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Brest Yizkor Books

The Books
An accounting of the Brest Yizkor Books and related materials:

At JewishGen
The JewishGen Yizkor Book Translation Project lists these Yizkor Books for Brest:

ref	publication	original language	translated to English	view original
#1	Brisk Edicion Aniversario La Sociedad de Brest y Alrededores (The Brisk Society), Buenos Aires, 1953 Citation: WorldCat	Yiddish	Brisk 30th Anniversary Edition	not available online
#2	Brisk de Lita: Encyclopedia Shel Galuyot Brest Litowsk Volume The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora Jerusalem, 1954-55 Citations: WorldCat NYPL	Hebrew	Brest Litowsk Volume: The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora (~1% complete)	at NYPL
#3	Brisk de Lita: Encyclopedia Shel Galuyot Brest Litowsk Volume The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora Jerusalem, 1958 Citations: WorldCat NYPL	Yiddish	Brest Litowsk Volume: The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora (~99% complete) As of May, 2014, available in hard-copy.	at NYPL
#4	Brest chapter of Pinkas Hakehillot Polin Volume V, Volhynia - Polesie, pages 226-237 Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1990 Citation: WordCat	Hebrew	Brest chapter of Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland

References #2 and #3 refer to two different versions of the same material, the earlier in Hebrew, the later in Yiddish. A summary of the differences:
• The paging is different; Yiddish takes more space
• Some specialized material (for example, a poem) may have been placed in a different order
• The Yiddish edition doesn't have a Names Index
• The Yiddish edition may include additional photos
These differences are visible only in the originals, viewable at NYPL, because the project to translate #2 to English has not been completed.

New York Public Library (NYPL)
NYPL lists these Yizkor Books for Brest:

ref	publication	original language	NYPL catalog	JewishGen translation project
#5	Brest (1954) (NYPL internal reference:1828)	Hebrew	master entry	view
#6	Brest Litovsk (1954) (NYPL internal reference:1829)
#7	Brisk (1954) (NYPL internal reference:1830)
#8	Brzesc Litewski (1954) (NYPL internal reference:1831)
#9	Brzesc nad Bugiem (1954) (NYPL internal reference:1832 )
#10	Brest (1958) (NYPL internal reference:1834)	Yiddish	master entry	view
#11	Brest Litovsk (1958) (NYPL internal reference:1835)
#12	Brisk (1958) (NYPL internal reference:2815)
#13	Brzesc Litewski (1958) (NYPL internal reference:1836)
#14	Brzesc nad Bugiem (1958) (NYPL internal reference:1833)

NYPL maintains multiple spelling variants of the name Brest as apparently distinct entries. All of these lead to only two master catalog entries and two original documents.

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