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In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine|
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.11.2013 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253011527 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 424 |
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Introduction<br>Note on Translation<br>1. The Shtetl: A Historical Landscape<br>2.The Scars of Revolution<br>3.Social Structure of the Soviet Shtetl<br>4.Growing Up in Yiddish<br>5.The Sanctuary of the Synagogue<br>6.Religion of the Home: Food and Faith<br>7.Life and Death in Reichkommissariat Ukraine<br>8. Life Beyond the River: Transnistria<br>9. A Kind of Victory<br>Conclusion<br>Brief Biographies<br>Notes<br>Bibliography<br>Acknowledgements<br>Index</p>
<p>The resilience of Jewish life in Eastern Europe</p>
<p>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, 2006) and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (IUP, 2009).</p>
<p>Related site: <a href="http://www.iub.edu/~aheym/">AHEYM</a> The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (AHEYM—the acronym means "homeward" in Yiddish) is a linguistic and oral history project that includes Yiddish language interviews with approximately 380 people, most of whom were born between the 1900s and the 1930s. These interviews are the basis for In the Shadow of the Shtetl. Podcast: <a href="http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/audio/shadow-shtetl-telling-story-small-town-jewish-life">Yiddish Book Center</a> <a href="http://youtu.be/gtWTyZQXaZo">Book trailer</a>: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gtWTyZQXaZo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>That significant numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews are still living in the small towns (the proverbial shtetlakh of Jewish collective memory) in the Podolian region of Ukraine will come as a great surprise to many. This vivid and well-documented study gives a moving and fascinating account of how these Jews survived the catastrophes of the 20th century and how some of them live today. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the Jews of Eastern Europe.</p>
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