Search CJH’s online catalog at http://search.cjh.org for general histories, yizkor books, memoirs, diaries, photographs, and other materials on the Jews of Latvia. Below is a selection of resources available at CJH.
Bobe, Mendel, ed. The Jews in Latvia (Tel Aviv: Association of Latvian and Estonian Jews in Israel, 1971). YIVO 000129907
Dribins, L. Ebreji Latvijā ( Rīga: Elpa, 2002). [Latvian.] YIVO 000107615
Dribins, L. Latvia’s Jewish Community: History, Tragedy, Revival (Rīga: Publishers of the Institute of the History of Latvia, 2001). YIVO 000107495
Ezergailis, Andrew. The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941-1944 (Washington, D.C.: Historical Institute of Latvia, 1996). YIVO 000088972
Gordon, Frank. Latvians and Jews between Germany and Russia (Stockholm: Memento, Rev. Ed. 2001). YIVO 000105271
Pinkas Ha-Kehillot (Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities): Latvia and Estonia (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1988). Reading Room DS 135 .E81 L38 1988
Schneider, Gertrude. The Unfinished Road: Jewish Survivors of Latvia Look Back (NY: Praeger, 1991). American Jewish Historical Society DS 135 .R93 L327 1991 and YIVO 000084158 and Leo Baeck Institute D810 J4 U485
Šteimanis, Josifs. History of Latvian Jews (Boulder: East European Monographs; distributed by NY: Columbia University Press, revised and edited 2002). YIVO 000107112
Yizkor Books: YIVO Library has a large collection of Yizkor books, including some from towns in Latvia. Using the CJH online catalog’s Advanced Search, select YIVO (Repository), and then type the town name in one field and Yizkor OR “Memorial Book” in the second field.
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