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Rietavas, Lithuania 55°44' N, 21°56' E Russian: Ретавас. Yiddish: ריטעווע 21 miles SW of Telšiai (Telz), 13 miles SSE of Plungė (Plungian).
Original Title:	Sefer Ritova; gal-ed le-zekher ayaratenu
English Title:	Memorial book: the Ritavas Community; a tribute to the memory of our town
Editor:	Alter Levite
Published:	Tel Aviv 1977
Publisher:	Ritova Societies in Israel and the Diaspora
	Pages: 260 Languages: H, Y, E
Notes:	Sheila Barkusky and Lilian Dubb translated pages 2, 6, 13, 65, 87-115, 126-199. Unpublished; photocopy of typescript at YIVO. A Revised Edition was published in English: A yizker book to Riteve: a Jewish shtetl in Lithuania (Cape Town, 2000).
Translation:	http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Rietavas/Rietavas.html

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See WorldCat site: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17041675

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, , Israel, Call No: Has book
Rambam Library, Tel Aviv, , Israel, Call No: ka533
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library, New York, NY, United States, Call No: 9/78958
Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, , Israel, Call No: 2072031
UCLA Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Call No: DS 135 R93 R487

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