Daughter of the Shtetl

The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva

AvDoba-Mera Medvedeva,Michael Beizer

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking grandchildren. We see in the book the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life—family divisions in a time of scarce resources—and also her attempts to break free, through work, revolution, and, eventually, marriage. She lived through pogroms and two world wars, but she endured, remembered, and wrote.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-09
Mått:234 x 155 x 8 mm
Vikt:262 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Antal sidor:158
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618114365

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Mer om författaren

Alice Nakhimovsky is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Colgate University. She is best known for her book Russian Jewish Literature and Identity (Johns Hopkins, 1991). Her latest book, Dear Mendel, Dear Reyzel: Yiddish Letter Manuals in Russia and America (Indiana University Press, 2015), written with Roberta Newman, won a National Jewish Book Award.Historian Michael Beizer of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian Jewry. His Jews of St. Petersburg, out in three languages, was a groundbreaking study of a group whose existence, at the time, was barely acknowledged. His latest book is Relief in a time of Need: Russian Jewry and the Joint, 1919-1924 (Slavica, 2015).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsTranslator’s NoteMy Babushka and Her MemoirsMichael BeizerA Unique Memoirist in Turbulent TimesAlice NakhimovskyA DIARY OF MY DAYSDoba-Mera Izrailevna Medvedeva (Gurevich)