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Brest, Belarus

52°06' N, 23°42' E

Russian: Брест-Литовск. Belarusian: Брэст. Yiddish: בריסק
Major city in SW Belarus. Capital of Polesie province of Poland, 1918-1939.

Original Title:

Brisk de-Lita

English Title:

Brest Lit(owsk) Volume

Editor:

Eliezer Steinman

Published:

Jerusalem 1954-55

Publisher:

Hevrat Entsiklopedyah Shel Galuyot = The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora

Pages: 647 Languages: H

Notes:

The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora (Entsiklopedyah Shel Galuyot), Volume 2.
Also issued in Yiddish, 1958 (712 columns).

Translation:

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/brest1/brest.html

Libraries

See WorldCat site: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320570449

University of London, London, , England, Call No: Has book

Joseph Meyerhoff Library, Baltimore, MD, United States, Call No: 278.6 .B77s

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Library, New York, NY, United States, Call No: 3/47248

New York Public Library, Jewish Division, New York, NY, United States, Call No: *PXV(Brest Litovsk) +

Weiner Library, London, , England, Call No: Has book

Price Library of Judaica, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Call No: Has book

Harvard University Library, Cambridge, MA, United States, Call No: Heb 16718.227 F

Hebrew Union College (LA), Los Angeles, CA, United States, Call No: DS 135 E8 35.5 v.2

Holocaust Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, United States, Call No: BREST

Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York, NY, United States, Call No: Ref +DS135 E8 E55 v.2

Hebrew Union College, New York, NY, United States, Call No: HI 999

Moadon Ha'Bund, Tel Aviv, , Israel, Call No: Communities Books Collection

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (Bund), New York, NY, United States, Call No: 946125

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, , Israel, Call No: D47(4)

Brandeis University Library, Waltham, MA, United States, Call No: +DS135.E8 E55

Hitachdut Yotzei Polin, Tel Aviv, , Israel, Call No: 12

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Call No: Has book

Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, , Israel, Call No: 1761187

UCLA Research Library, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Call No: DS 135 E8 E56 v.2

Jewish Public Library of Montreal, Montreal, , Canada, Call No: Yizkor

Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN, United States, Call No: 947.6502 B755ba

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States, Call No: DS 135 U42 B75 1958

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Brest, Belarus

52°06' N, 23°42' E