In the Shadow of the Shtetl : Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shtetls.
Jews > Social life and customs.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Juifs > Ukraine > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
Shtetls > Ukraine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Jews > Ukraine > Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Jews > Ukraine > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Shtetls > Ukraine > Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ > History > 20th century.
Shtetls > Ukraine > History > 20th century.
Ukraine > Vinnyt︠s︡ʹka oblastʹ
Ukraine.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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