In the Shadow of the Shtetl

Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

AvJeffrey Veidlinger

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253022974

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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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"Hitherto the story of the Holocaust in the Eastern European shtetl has been told by those who left—on 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 stories—perhaps a shape that can help us better understand places like Rwanda or Cambodia—or Bosnia."—New York Review of Books

Innehållsförteckning

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