Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name of each volume of a series presenting collected historical information and demographic data on eastern eur”. Today it says “book series presenting collected historical information and demographic data on eastern european countries' jew”.
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Pinkas haKehillot or Pinkas Ha-kehilot , ( Hebrew : פנקס הקהילות; notebook of the [Jewish] communities; plural: Pinkasei haKehillot ) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities from Their Foundation till after the Holocaust , is the name of each volume of a series presenting collected historical information and demographic data on Eastern European countries' Jewish communities, most of which were depopulated and whose populations were exterminated in the Holocaust . Pinkasei haKehillot is one of the most important projects undertaken by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem , concisely documenting this aspect of the history of the Holocaust. Book sample: The Communities of Lodz and its Region: List of the Communities , 1976, Yad Vashem , Jerusalem , 297 pages, Hebrew YIVO Institute for Jewish Research KOL haKEHILA, The Newsletter of the Jewish monuments of Greece "Rubin Mass Publishing, Israeli Books - Jewish Books all Israel books" .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Pinkas haKehillot or Pinkas Ha-kehilot , ( Hebrew : פנקס הקהילות; notebook of the [Jewish] communities; plural: Pinkasei haKehillot ) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities from Their Foundation till after the Holocaust , is the name of each volume of a series presenting collected historical information and demographic data on Eastern European countries' Jewish communities, most of which were depopulated and whose populations were exterminated in the Holocaust . Pinkasei haKehillot is one of the most important projects undertaken by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem , concisely documenting this aspect of the history of the Holocaust. The Communities of Lodz and its Region: List of the Communities , 1976, Yad Vashem , Jerusalem , 297 pages, Hebrew YIVO Institute for Jewish Research KOL haKEHILA, The Newsletter of the Jewish monuments of Greece Rubin Mass Publishing, Israeli Books - Jewish Books all Israel books
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name of each volume of a series presenting collected historical information and demographic data on eastern eur
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book series presenting collected historical information and demographic data on eastern european countries' jew
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