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Shtetl Memoirs
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Joachim Schoenfeld
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Ktav Publishing House

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Contains personal memoirs interspersed with historical information. Schoenfeld was born in 1895 in Snyatyn, Eastern Galicia. Recollects Jewish life in Snyatyn u
Confessions of the Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Ellie R. Schainker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-16 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day worl
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 543
Authors: Yekhezkel Kotik
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-09 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town. Ori
Anna's Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Lawrence A. Coben
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-25 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by
Shtetl
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Jeffrey Shandler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-15 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and co