In the Shadow of the Shtetl (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
424
Utgivningsdatum
2016-02-26
Utmärkelser
Winner of Winner, 2014 Canadian Jewish Book Awards, history category.
Förlag
Indiana University Press
Illustrationer
21 color illus., 15 b&w illus., 4 maps
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229 x 152 x 25 mm
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590 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780253022974

In the Shadow of the Shtetl

Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

av Jeffrey Veidlinger
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-02-26
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The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger's reappraisal of the traditional narrative of 20th-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.
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Hitherto the story of the Holocaust in the Eastern European shtetl has been told by those who lefton behalf of those who did not survive. What do we learn from these stories told from the shtetl itself? In the Shadow of the Shtetl restores horror to the setting in which it occurred: at home, among familiar people and places. . . . In their accounts the everyday and the extraordinary, the innocuous and the gruesome are continually intertwined. The same people participated in both. The relationship between the normal and the abnormal, the intimate and the alien takes on a different shape in these storiesperhaps a shape that can help us better understand places like Rwanda or Cambodiaor Bosnia. * New York Review of Books *

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Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater (IUP) and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (IUP).

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Introduction Note on Translation 1. The Shtetl: A Historical Landscape 2.The Scars of Revolution 3.Social Structure of the Soviet Shtetl 4.Growing Up in Yiddish 5.The Sanctuary of the Synagogue 6.Religion of the Home: Food and Faith 7.Life and Death in Reichkommissariat Ukraine 8. Life Beyond the River: Transnistria 9. A Kind of Victory Conclusion Brief Biographies Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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