In the Shadow of the Shtetl

Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine

Jeffrey Veidlinger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2016
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253022974 (ISBN)

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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 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.

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) and Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire (IUP).

Introduction Note on Translation 1. The Shtetl: A Historical Landscape 2.The Scars of Revolution 3.Social Structure of the Soviet Shtetl 4.Growing Up in Yiddish 5.The Sanctuary of the Synagogue 6.Religion of the Home: Food and Faith 7.Life and Death in Reichkommissariat Ukraine 8. Life Beyond the River: Transnistria 9. A Kind of Victory Conclusion Brief Biographies Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.03.2016
Zusatzinfo	21 color illus., 15 b&w illus., 4 maps
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780253022974 / 9780253022974
Zustand	Neuware