Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan University Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and author of Keepers of Memory: The Holocaust and Transgenerational Identity.

"A moving testimony to a lost world and a goad to keep its memory alive." – Kirkus Reviews "In this moving, bold, and scholarly work, Jennifer Rich precisely captures the reasons why memorial books are so engaging and important. Not just informative and heartfelt, Paper Tombs functions in the same way as the books Rich so lovingly describes: as a matzeva or substitute gravestone." - Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History "A deeply original, moving and personal study of post-Holocaust memory. Jennifer Rich analyzes how survivor-created memorial books preserved destroyed communities in text, image, and material form, transforming grief into collective remembrance. A powerful new contribution to Holocaust studies, this work reshapes how we understand survival and commemoration." - Christine Schmidt, Acting Co-Director, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London "Beautifully written and extensively researched, Jenny Rich's Paper Tombs takes us on a multi-sensory journey into the lost Jewish worlds captured in yizker bikher and opens our eyes to the lives of the individuals and communities who created them. By moving beyond the analysis of just the written word, Rich helps us understand how and why these repositories of memory were created and how their materiality is also a response to the violent and emotional rupture caused by the Holocaust." - Caroline Sturdy Colls, author of Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions "This inti­mate his­to­ry tes­ti­fies to the full­ness of pre­war Jew­ish life and to the peo­ple — con­trib­u­tors, com­mit­tees, edi­tors — who gave some­thing of them­selves to pre­serve its memory." – Jewish Book Council "Rich holds that we should take yizkor books seriously both for what they reveal about the towns and for what they teach us about the people who created the books and what mattered to them... [a] fine [point] of entry into these rich textual portraits of a vanished world." – Jewish News of Northern California

Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan University Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and author of Keepers of Memory: The Holocaust and Transgenerational Identity.

"A moving testimony to a lost world and a goad to keep its memory alive." – Kirkus Reviews "In this moving, bold, and scholarly work, Jennifer Rich precisely captures the reasons why memorial books are so engaging and important. Not just informative and heartfelt, Paper Tombs functions in the same way as the books Rich so lovingly describes: as a matzeva or substitute gravestone." - Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History "A deeply original, moving and personal study of post-Holocaust memory. Jennifer Rich analyzes how survivor-created memorial books preserved destroyed communities in text, image, and material form, transforming grief into collective remembrance. A powerful new contribution to Holocaust studies, this work reshapes how we understand survival and commemoration." - Christine Schmidt, Acting Co-Director, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London "Beautifully written and extensively researched, Jenny Rich's Paper Tombs takes us on a multi-sensory journey into the lost Jewish worlds captured in yizker bikher and opens our eyes to the lives of the individuals and communities who created them. By moving beyond the analysis of just the written word, Rich helps us understand how and why these repositories of memory were created and how their materiality is also a response to the violent and emotional rupture caused by the Holocaust." - Caroline Sturdy Colls, author of Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions "This inti­mate his­to­ry tes­ti­fies to the full­ness of pre­war Jew­ish life and to the peo­ple — con­trib­u­tors, com­mit­tees, edi­tors — who gave some­thing of them­selves to pre­serve its memory." – Jewish Book Council "Rich holds that we should take yizkor books seriously both for what they reveal about the towns and for what they teach us about the people who created the books and what mattered to them... [a] fine [point] of entry into these rich textual portraits of a vanished world." – Jewish News of Northern California

Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan University Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and author of Keepers of Memory: The Holocaust and Transgenerational Identity.

"A moving testimony to a lost world and a goad to keep its memory alive." – Kirkus Reviews "In this moving, bold, and scholarly work, Jennifer Rich precisely captures the reasons why memorial books are so engaging and important. Not just informative and heartfelt, Paper Tombs functions in the same way as the books Rich so lovingly describes: as a matzeva or substitute gravestone." - Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History "A deeply original, moving and personal study of post-Holocaust memory. Jennifer Rich analyzes how survivor-created memorial books preserved destroyed communities in text, image, and material form, transforming grief into collective remembrance. A powerful new contribution to Holocaust studies, this work reshapes how we understand survival and commemoration." - Christine Schmidt, Acting Co-Director, The Wiener Holocaust Library, London "Beautifully written and extensively researched, Jenny Rich's Paper Tombs takes us on a multi-sensory journey into the lost Jewish worlds captured in yizker bikher and opens our eyes to the lives of the individuals and communities who created them. By moving beyond the analysis of just the written word, Rich helps us understand how and why these repositories of memory were created and how their materiality is also a response to the violent and emotional rupture caused by the Holocaust." - Caroline Sturdy Colls, author of Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions "This inti­mate his­to­ry tes­ti­fies to the full­ness of pre­war Jew­ish life and to the peo­ple — con­trib­u­tors, com­mit­tees, edi­tors — who gave some­thing of them­selves to pre­serve its memory." – Jewish Book Council "Rich holds that we should take yizkor books seriously both for what they reveal about the towns and for what they teach us about the people who created the books and what mattered to them... [a] fine [point] of entry into these rich textual portraits of a vanished world." – Jewish News of Northern California