Pinkas haKehilot

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 a book 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 was published from 1969 to 2007 and is one of the major projects undertaken by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the State of Israel's Holocaust memorial authority, concisely documenting this aspect of the history of the Holocaust.