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

Veidlinger, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253011515 ISBN 13: 9780253011510

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Winner, 2014 Canadian Jewish Book Awards, history category

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0253011515
• ISBN 13: 9780253011510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424