Jewish Heritage Travel Book

Subject: New travel guide for Jewish Eastern EuropeFrom: "Renee Steinig" Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:57:43 -0400X-Message-Number: 1With thanks to Rosanne Leeson, who mentioned the book on the ROM-SIG mailing list, here is a one-time commercial notice of a new, updated edition of "Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe" by Ruth Ellen Gruber.In this guide book, which first appeared in 1992 and is now published by National Geographic, Gruber describes hundreds of Jewish heritage sites in 14 Eastern European countries. She also provides general advice and resource information for travel to the region, including links to a number of JewishGen pages. Genealogists will especially appreciate Gruber's translation of the words "Jewish cemetery" into 13 languages!In addition to large cities, the book covers a number of smaller towns and villages. Formerly Galician localities that are highlighted include...Poland:Cracow, Dabrowa Tarnowska, Debica, Grybow, Nowy Sacz, TarnowUkraine:Belz, Bolekhiv, Brody, Busk, Drohobych, Lviv, Rozdil, Stary Sambir, Stryj, Zhovkva(I've used the author's spellings.)ReneeRenee Stern SteinigDix Hills, New York, USAgenmaven@gmail.com----------------------------------------------------------------------