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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington ; Indianapolis :
Indiana University Press
2013.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gzjt1 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.