Kacyzne, Alter, Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country, Metropolitan Books, 1999.

In 1921, a New York City Yiddish daily newspaper commissioned photographer and journalist Alter Kacyzne to capture Jewish life in Poland (or Poyln, as the Eastern European Jews once referred to the country). For ten years he traveled across Poland, documenting a way of life that literally disappeared after Hitler's campaign against the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s. The materials from Kacyzne's project sat for sixty years until this recent effort to bring it to the public's attention.

Rogovoy, Seth, The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant Garde, Algonquin Books, 2000.

Klezmer music traces its roots back to the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and is currently experiencing a revival. It is now played by such varied musicians...