Zhager

References

Lucy S. Dawidowicz, "The Golden Tradition", 1967
Martin Gilbert, "The Second World War: A Complete History", 1989
Berl Kagan , "Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania – Until 1918", 1991 (In Yiddish, translated by Miriam Flacks)
Dovid Katz, "Lithuanian Jewish Culture", 2010
Dov Levin, "The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews of Lithuania", 2000
Isaac Levitats, "The Jewish Community in Russia, 1772-1845", copyright 1943 reprinted 1970.
Sara Manobla, "Zagare: Litvaks and Lithuanians Confront the Past", 2014. Here is a link to the Jerusalem Post review of this book:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/zagare/images/References_Jerusalem_Post.pdf

Josef Rosin, "Preserving our Litvak Heritage - Volume II", 2007 (Published by JewishGen). Included in the appendices are the following lists of individuals from Žagarė: Jewish donors to the victims of the famine in Persia in 1872; donors from 1909 to buy land in Eretz-Yisrael; donors to the settlement of Eretz-Yisrael; and a 1914 list of Zhager Jews who paid annual membership fees to the Agudath-Yisrael party.

Nancy and Stuart Schoenburg, "Lithuanian Jewish Communities", 1991

Rose Zwi, "Last Walk in Naryshkin Park", 1997

"'Zagare' - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Lithuania" (Translation of the "Zagare" chapter from Pinkas Hakelliot Lita), edited by Dov Levin and Yosef Rosin, published by Yad Vashem, 1996. http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pinkas_lita/lit_00277.html

"Zhagare (Žagarė, Lithuania) By a Zagerer", translated by Judie Ostroff Goldstein and Dr. Sonia Kovitz, in Lithuania, Translation of Lite, edited by Sudarsky, Katzenelenbogen, Kissin, and Kagan, 1951.

Here is the Table of Contents of "Lithuania, Translation of Lite":
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/lita.html

Here is the English text of "Zhagare":
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/lita/Lit1589.html#Page1605
Here is a copy of the original work in Yiddish, courtesy YIVO Institute for Jewish Research:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/zagare/images/References_Lite_Yiddish.pdf

And here is the original Yiddish of "Sages of Zhagare" by Herman Frank in the same publication:
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/zagare/images/Sages_of_Zhagare.pdf

Žagarė, Lithuania

Zhager

Zhager [Yid], Zhagare [Rus], Żagory [Pol], Žagarė [Latv]

References

Introduction

History

Notable personalities

Memorial Plaque Dedication - July 2012

Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony

- March 2013

Žagarė Cemeteries

Former Jewish Buildings Today

Family Histories

General