Anna's shtetl /
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 Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in E...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The two Shevchenkos
- The town
- Grandmother Beyla
- Grandfather Avrum
- Aaron and Leya
- The surprise (1914-1916)
- The marketplace
- Nobility and obscurity
- At Alta's house (1916-1917)
- Anna's prize (1916-1917)
- Between gentile and Jew
- Cousin Zavl
- Leya the smuggler (1917-1919)
- The first pogrom (March 1-8, 1918)
- The aftermath (March 1918)
- The Germans occupy Korsun (1918)
- Fall and winter in prewar Korsun
- The worst winter (1918-1919)
- Spring and summer in prewar Korsun
- Spring and summer (1919)
- The third pogrom (August 13-26, 1919)
- How to tell a sollop
- The two Korsuns
- Moscow (1919-1921)
- Petrograd (1921)
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. Shtetl influences
- Appendix B. The shtetl memoir
- Appendix C. How true to reality is Anna's shtetl?
- Appendix D. Material from sources other than Anna.