Aleksandra Szczepan, “Intimate Cartographies: Mapping Jewish Eastern Europe in Yizker-Bikher”
This talk will explore how Jewish memorial books, yizker-bikher, created by Holocaust survivors or by pre-war Jewish émigrés from Eastern Europe, have engaged and encouraged various forms of mappings. These include both material cartographic images published in memorial books and performative acts of mapping the space of Jewish Eastern Europe undertaken by two groups of