Resources, publication and guidebooks for individual countries, regions and cities will be found in the Publications sections of the country pages.

 

Cohen, Israel. Travels in Jewry. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1953.

Fascinating first-hand accounts of pre-World War II Jewish communities and sites in a number of countries in Europe.

Frank, Ben G. A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe. Gretna: Pelican, 2001 (Third Edition)

Gruber, Ruth Ellen. Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Eastern Europe. Washington: National Geographic, 2007

The most comprehensive Jewish travel guide to eastern and central Europe, encompassing 14 countries. The Jewish Heritage Travel blog — http://jewish-heritage-travel.blogspot.com — updates material found in the book.

Gruber, Ruth Ellen. Upon the Doorposts of Thy House: Jewish Life in East-Central Europe Yesterday and Today. New York: Wiley, 1994

Essays on the impact of the surviving physical traces of pre-war Jewish life in East-Central Europe.

Jewish Travel Guide 2009. London: Valentine Mitchell, 2009

Lowenthal, Marvin, A World Passed By: Scenes and memories of Jewish Civilization in Europe and North Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933.

The first comprehensive Jewish travel guide to Europe (and North Africa).

Postal, Bernard, and Abramson, Samuel H. The Traveler’s Guide to Jewish Landmarks of Europe. New York: Fleet Press, 1971

Second edition of the 1962 classic Landmarks of a People, the first comprehensive post-Holocaust Jewish travel guide to Europe.

Semo, Marc, et al. The Cultural Guide to Jewish Europe (Le Guide culturel des Juifs d’Europe). Paris: Editions du Seuill, 2004 (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004)

Tigay, Alan M. The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine’s Guide to the World’s Jewish Communities and Sights. Northvale, N.J,: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1994

Valley, Eli. The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe. Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1999

Detailed resource on Budapest, Warsaw, Krakow and Prague.

Winstone, Martin. The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical Guide. I.B. Tauris, 2010

Young, James. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993