Books in the Shefayim Archives
Information from the holdings of the Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews at Kibbutz Shefayim is made available by kind permission of the Association and its Archivist, Shlomo Kurlandchik.
Hebrew and Yiddish
| Author |
Name of book |
No. pages |
Place and year |
Archive no. |
Language |
Comments |
|
Yiddishe Kinstler Farein in Lettland |
10 |
Riga, 1929 |
437 |
Yiddish |
|
| Ovzinski, Yona |
History of Jewish Settlement in Courland |
170 |
Pietrkov, 1908 |
263 |
Hebrew |
|
|
Almanach Kalendar Gewizmet Dem Yidisshn Kibbutz in Rezekne |
94 |
Rezekne, 1939 |
180 |
Yiddish |
|
|
Kibbutz in Rezeze ofen yahr 1939/40 |
|
|
|
Yiddish |
|
|
What Happened to Us: Lists from Ghetto Riga |
68 |
1975 |
63 |
Hebrew |
|
| Avraham, Etti & Neishtadt, Mordechai |
Curriculae Vita of the Netzach Movement in Latvia |
296 |
Tel Aviv, 1972 |
30 |
Yiddish |
|
| Bobe, Mendel |
Yidden in Lettland |
368 |
Tel Aviv, 1972 |
339, 512 |
Hebrew |
|
| Bobe, Mendel |
Chapters in the History of the Latvian Jews |
215 |
Tel Aviv, 1965 |
24, 25 |
Hebrew |
(1651-1918) |
| Bloch, Alexander |
Tzvelf |
31 |
Riga, 1927 |
131 |
Yiddish |
|
| Berman, L. |
In Loif Fun Yohrn |
370 |
New York, 1945 |
294 |
Yiddish |
"Bund" in Dvinsk |
| Breitberg, Moshe |
A Book of Grammar for the Student |
125 |
Riga, 1935 |
327, 328 |
Hebrew |
|
|
Bar Kochba |
23 |
Riga, 1925 |
527 |
|
|
| Barnoi, Sarah |
Trip to The Alleys of My Youth |
134 |
Natanya, 1998 |
563 |
Hebrew |
Memoires & Estonia |
| Gordin, Z. |
Klepike Krankeiten |
32 |
Dvinsk, 1929 |
42 |
Yiddish |
|
| Gertz, M. |
25 Yahr Yiddishe Fresse in Lettland |
66 |
Riga, 1933 |
508 |
Yiddish |
|
| Getz, M.P. |
The Hebrew Education is in Danger |
43 |
Riga, 1931 |
526 |
Hebrew |
|
| Dabrushin, Y. |
Michaols der Aktier |
123 |
Riga, 1940 |
136 |
Yiddish |
|
| Dubinow, Shimon |
Yiddisher Geshichte |
152 |
Riga, 1934 |
17 |
Yiddish |
|
| Dvorzetski, M. |
Jewish Camps in Estonia: 1942-44 |
402 |
Jerusalem, 1970 |
55 |
Hebrew |
|
| Dvorzetski, M. |
Weise Necht un Swarze Teg (Yidn lagern in Estonia) |
440 |
Tel Aviv, 1970 |
295 |
Yiddish |
|
| Ovzinski, L. |
Die Geshichte fun die Yiddn in Lettland |
199 |
Riga, 1928 |
262 |
Yiddish |
|
| Dimanstein, Aizik |
Meine Zichronot fun die Konzetratie Lagern - Ghetto Riga |
33 |
Stockholm, 1948 |
278 |
Yiddish |
|
|
Sermon of the Lubevitch Admor in Riga |
70 |
Riga |
|
Hebrew |
|
|
The Decade of the World Histadrut of the "Shomer Hatzair" |
170 |
Afikim, 1941 |
|
Hebrew |
Latvia |
| Wulfson, A. |
Kranke Kases un die Doktoirim |
78 |
Riga, 1928 |
47 |
Yiddish |
|
| Nerhaptig, David |
The Forbidden Revenge. Memoires |
160 |
Tel Aviv, 1989 |
22 |
Hebrew |
Also on Beitar Latvia 1930-1938 |
|
Zecher Mordechai. Dedicated to Rabbi Nurok, M. z"l |
217 |
Jerusalem, 1967 |
7 |
Hebrew |
Rabbi from Latvia |
| Chen, Mordechai |
Memoires |
66 |
1999 |
570 |
Hebrew |
Also on Dvinsk |
|
Bela Charuzi, z"l |
64 |
|
253 |
|
Dvinsk |
| Tabak, Eli |
Granite |
40 |
Riga, 1922 |
35 |
|
Songs |
|
Latvian Jews, Yizkor |
458 |
Tel Aviv, 1953 |
31 |
Hebrew |
Yizkor book |
|
Yiddn un Latischen. Der Zeiloingen |
205 |
Riga, 1938 |
45 |
Yiddish |
|
| Uris, A. S. |
Kemfer un Dichter |
225 |
Riga 1931 |
340 |
Yiddish |
|
| Yanai,Ya'akov |
Mulka, a story of "havricha" |
321 |
Tel Aviv, 1988 |
467 |
Hebrew |
Mulka Yaffe from Riga |
| Levenstein, Meir |
On the Edge - Memoires |
152 |
Tel Aviv, 1975 |
58 |
Hebrew |
Ghetto Riga, Kuldiga |
|
Lutek-Eliyahu Ber, z"l. 1911-1976. The story of his life. |
180 |
Tel Aviv, 1979 |
338 |
Hebrew |
Riga |
| Levin, Alexander |
Obersturmfuhrer Fritz Shervitz |
78 |
|
497 |
Hebrew |
Ghetto Riga |
| Levin, Dov |
Latvian Jews Fighting with the Partisans |
|
Typed |
357 |
Hebrew |
|
|
To the Memory of the Jews of Dvinsk |
63 |
1974, Haifa |
104 |
|
|
| Livnat, Shulamit |
The Heavens Are Much Closer |
183 |
Tel Aviv, 1989 |
23 |
Hebrew |
Also on Beitar Liuzon |
| Levin, Dov |
With the Back to the Wall: Jewish Fighters in Latvia Against the Nazis |
|
|
|
Hebrew |
|
| Levin, Dov |
Pinkas HaKehillot Latvia v'Estonia |
396 |
Jerusalem, 1988 |
2 |
Hebrew |
|
| Liberson, Techiah |
Chapters of Life |
143 |
Tel Aviv, 1970 |
261 |
Hebrew |
Childhood in Dvinsk |
| Marian, Yitzhak |
Lettland |
128 |
Riga, 1929 |
13 |
Yiddish |
|
| Mark, Mendel |
Die Yiddishe Weltsshul in Lettland |
324 |
New York, 1973 |
11 |
Yiddish |
|
| |
Jubilee Collection of Leadership of the Cultural Autonomy for the Jews of Estonia. |
49 |
Talon, 1926 |
251 |
Hebrew |
|
| Mazor, Norbert |
A Jew Converses With Himmler |
32 |
1985 |
290 |
Hebrew |
|
| Michelson, Klara |
Die Yiddishe Neshema Kaman |
62 |
Riga, 1937 |
126 |
Yiddish |
|
|
"Malbish 'Arumim" - 1915-1930, Latvia |
107 |
Riga, 1930 |
10 |
|
With Portraits. |
|
Makor v'Derech - National Jubilee Kibbutz "HaShomer Hazair" |
171 |
1985 |
311 |
Hebrew |
Also on Latvia |
| Melamed, Hirsch |
Die Revolutionair fun Yisroel |
143 |
Riga, 1930 |
39 |
Yiddish |
|
| Marlender, Chava |
Life's Story. 1916-1997 |
32 |
1997 |
565 |
Hebrew |
Windau |
| Nurok, Mordechai |
Zionist Committee in Minsk. 1902 |
85 |
Jerusalem, 1963 |
123 |
Hebrew |
|
|
Nechemia Argov |
203 |
1959 |
264 |
|
Dvinsk |
| Neishtadt, Mordechai |
The History of the "Netzach" [Victory] Movement in Latvia |
296 |
Tel Aviv, 1972 |
308 |
Hebrew |
|
| Ewer, Rabbi Yitzchak Zvi |
The Rabbi of Lewenberg |
552 |
Kurland, 1939 |
4 |
Hebrew |
Born in Poltn |
| Erlich, H. |
Dankere. Tipen un Epizodn fun Shtetl: In Lettland mit 60 yaar Zuruk |
64 |
Johannesburg, 1956 |
38 |
Yiddish |
Dankere |
|
A City and Her Name is Libau |
36 |
|
427 |
Hebrew |
Libau |
|
Sambatien Zamelbuch |
136 |
Riga, 1922 |
130 |
Yiddish |
|
|
Jewish Writers who were killed in the Shoah |
750 |
1981 |
132 |
Hebrew |
Also on the Murder of Dubnow in Riga |
| Stoli, Levita |
Unser Shprach |
336 |
Riga, 1937 |
9 |
Yiddish |
|
|
The Book of Beitar: History and Sources, Volumes I and II |
484; 527 |
Jerusalem 1967; 1976 |
363-365 |
Hebrew |
Also Beitar Latvia |
|
The Will of the Grand Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Zelig |
16 |
Koenigsberg, 1849 |
267 |
Hebrew |
Also, daughters TALSON |
| Paul, Sh.Z., Skotelsky, Sh. |
Dvarei Yamei Ha'amim |
147 |
Riga, 1938 |
282 |
Hebrew |
|
| Pollak, Misha |
Yes, I Loved Dita |
325 |
Ramat Gan, 1987 |
298 |
Hebrew |
Ghetto Riga |
| Fein, Esther |
On the Road to the Storm |
264 |
Tel Aviv, 1992 |
423 |
Hebrew |
Memoirs of the Latvian Divisions |
|
Pinkas fun Riger Yiddishe Gezelsaflere un Filathropische Toiyer |
95 |
Riga, 1934 |
3 |
Yiddish |
with pictures |
| Frankel-Zalzman, Pessie |
Heptling Nomr 94771 |
175 |
Montreal, 1949 |
57 |
Yiddish |
Ghetto Riga, Dvinsk |
| Fruber, Ida |
Circles of Life: Autobiographical novel |
203 |
Tel Aviv, 1982 |
124 |
Hebrew |
The first pioneer from Estonia |
|
The Ruth Alexandrovitch Affair |
217 |
Ashdod, 1971 |
50 |
Hebrew |
On Aliyah from Riga |
|
A collection of songs from the organisation "Beitaria" Riga |
62 |
Riga, 1932 |
36 |
Hebrew |
|
| Kodesh, Reuven |
How I Was Saved |
22 |
|
49 |
Hebrew |
Ghetto Riga |
|
History of the Netiyach Movement in Latvia |
88 |
1974 |
15 |
Hebrew |
|
|
Meri Katznelson [Epstein] z"l |
38 |
|
478 |
Hebrew |
Born in Aizpute |
| Kleinstein, Nachum |
Der Adress fun mein Jungent |
86 |
Tel Aviv, 1990 |
318 |
Yiddish |
On Dvinsk |
| Rassen, Ya'akov |
Mir Viln Lebn |
316 |
New York, 1949 |
52 |
Yiddish |
Memoires on the Shoah and on Riga |
|
Grisha Shenkman |
185 |
Jerusalem, 1988 |
475 |
|
Also Scouts in Latvia |
| Shpungin, Avraham |
Indeed, That's How it Was |
202 |
Tel Aviv, 1994 |
503 |
Hebrew |
A survivor from Riga |
Other Languages
| Author |
Name of book |
No. pages |
Place and year |
Archive no. |
Language |
Comments |
| Arbusow, L. |
Grundrissder Geschichte Liv-Est und Kurlands |
372 |
Riga, 1918 |
160 |
German |
|
| Bucholtz, Anton |
Geschichte der Juden in Riga |
161 |
Riga, 1899 |
386 |
German |
|
|
Verzeichnis Lettländischer Ortsnamen |
178 |
Hamburg, 1963 |
385 |
German |
|
|
Die Presse Lettlands |
50 |
Riga, 1928 |
184 |
German |
Jüd. Presse, p. 115 is Jewish |
| Dohrn, Verena |
Baltische Reise |
284 |
Frankfurt, 1994 |
539 |
German |
Riga; Aizpute |
| Flior, Maurice |
Heralds of East Wind |
305 |
Johannesburg, 1975 |
557 |
English |
Jews, Latvia |
| Flior, Yudel |
Dvinsk |
188 |
Johannesburg, 1956 |
189 |
English |
|
|
Fragments of the Jewish History of Riga |
31 |
Riga, 1991 |
453 |
English |
|
| Gluckman, Albert Gerard |
Brenner: A Genealogical Study of Brenner Family from Goldingen |
140 |
1981 |
219 |
English |
Goldingen |
| Gordon, Frank |
Latvians and Jews Between Germany and Russia |
66 |
Stockholm, 1990 |
313 |
English |
|
|
Historical Minorities in Latvia |
96 |
Riga, 1994 |
500 |
English |
|
| Iwens, Sidney |
How Dark the Heavens, 1,400 Days in the Grasp of the Nazis |
291 |
New York, 1992 |
430 |
English |
Dvinsk |
| Kalnins, Bruno |
Latvijas Social-demokratijas |
375 |
Stockholm, 1956 |
152 |
Latvian |
|
| Kaufman, Max |
Die Vernichtung der Juden Lettlands |
542 |
Munich, 1947 |
143 |
German |
|
|
Latvijas Adresu Gramata |
196 |
Riga, 1936 |
384 |
Latvian |
|
| Levin, Dov |
Baltic Jews Under the Soviets, 1940 - 1946 |
393 |
Jerusalem, 1994 |
495 |
English |
|
|
Latvijas Universitates Raksti |
528 |
Riga, 1926 |
178 |
Latvian |
|
|
Latvijas Universitates Raksti |
210 |
Riga, 1932 |
179 |
Latvian |
|
|
Latvijas Medicinas Adresu Gramata |
140 |
Riga, 1932 |
170 |
Latvian |
|
| Lejins, J. |
Latvian Jews Relations |
25 |
Canada, 1975 |
210 |
English |
|
| Levy, Arnold |
The Behr Tree [1683 - 1949] |
130 |
Toulon, 1949 |
223 |
English |
|
|
Latvijas Adresu Gramatas |
192 |
Leipzig, 1923 |
383 |
English |
|
| Levinson, Isaac |
The Untold Story |
174 |
Johannesburg, 1958 |
190 |
English |
Jews, Latvia |
| Monneray, Henri |
La Pérsecution des Juifs dans les Pays de l'est Presentée à Nürnberg |
358 |
Paris, 1949 |
220 |
French |
Also Jews, Latvia |
| Munters, Vilhelms |
The Own Peoples Enemies |
154 |
Riga, 1965 |
228 |
English |
Holocaust |
|
Salaspils |
280 |
Riga, 1962 |
146 |
Latvian |
|
| Schneider, Gertrude |
The Unfinished Road: Jews of Latvia Look Back |
208 |
New York, 1991 |
417 |
English |
|
| Schneider, Gertrude |
Muted Voices: Jewish Surviors of Latvia Remember |
276 |
New York, 1987 |
307 |
English |
|
|
Second Conference on Baltic Studies |
232 |
Oklahoma, 1971 |
174 |
English |
|
| Silabriedis, J., Arklans, B. |
Political Refugees Unmasked |
224 |
Riga, 1965 |
195 |
English |
Holocaust |
| Suta, Roman |
60 Jahre Lettischer Kunst |
46 |
Leipzig, 1923 |
175 |
German |
|
| Uris, Leon |
Exodus |
626 |
New York, 1958 |
147 |
English |
|
| Vestermanis, Margers |
Juden in Riga |
80 |
Bremen, 1995 |
537 |
German |
|
| Vestermanis, Margers |
Der Holocaust in Lettland |
29 |
|
488 |
German |
|
| Vater, Eva |
Ebreji Mediki Latvia |
270 |
Riga, 1997 |
573 |
Latvian |
Encyclopaedia |