In the shadow of the shtetl : small-town Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine /

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 this book&...

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Hlavní autor: Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971- (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press 2013.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzjt1
Obsah:
  • The shtetl : a historical landscape
  • The scars of revolution
  • Social structure of the Soviet shtetl
  • Growing up in Yiddish
  • The sanctuary of the synagogue
  • Religion of the home : food and faith
  • Life and death in Reichkommissariat Ukraine
  • Life beyond the river : Transnistria
  • A kind of victory
  • Conclusion.