The Shtetl

Author : Max Gross
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062991140

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The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross Pdf

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES GOOD MORNING AMERICA MUST READ NEW BOOKS * NEW YORK POST BUZZ BOOKS * THE MILLIONS MOST ANTICIPATED A remarkable debut novel—written with the fearless imagination of Michael Chabon and the piercing humor of Gary Shteyngart—about a small Jewish village in the Polish forest that is so secluded no one knows it exists . . . until now. What if there was a town that history missed? For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, its residents enjoyed remarkable peace. It missed out on cars, and electricity, and the internet, and indoor plumbing. But when a marriage dispute spins out of control, the whole town comes crashing into the twenty-first century. Pesha Lindauer, who has just suffered an ugly, acrimonious divorce, suddenly disappears. A day later, her husband goes after her, setting off a panic among the town elders. They send a woefully unprepared outcast named Yankel Lewinkopf out into the wider world to alert the Polish authorities. Venturing beyond the remote safety of Kreskol, Yankel is confronted by the beauty and the ravages of the modern-day outside world – and his reception is met with a confusing mix of disbelief, condescension, and unexpected kindness. When the truth eventually surfaces, his story and the existence of Kreskol make headlines nationwide. Returning Yankel to Kreskol, the Polish government plans to reintegrate the town that time forgot. Yet in doing so, the devious origins of its disappearance come to the light. And what has become of the mystery of Pesha and her former husband? Divided between those embracing change and those clinging to its old world ways, the people of Kreskol will have to find a way to come together . . . or risk their village disappearing for good.

Author : Nancy Sinkoff
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Hasidism
ISBN : 9781930675162

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Out of the Shtetl by Nancy Sinkoff Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Veidlinger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253011527

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In the Shadow of the Shtetl by Jeffrey Veidlinger Pdf

A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. 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 four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-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.

Author : Zelda Abramson,John Lynch
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771134057

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The Montreal Shtetl by Zelda Abramson,John Lynch Pdf

As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of Montreal and their impact on the existing Jewish community is well-recognized. But what do we really know about how survivors’ experienced their new community? Drawing on more than 60 interviews with survivors, hundreds of case files from Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, and other archival documents, The Montreal Shtetl presents a portrait of the daily struggles of Holocaust survivors who settled in Montreal, where they encountered difficulties with work, language, culture, health care, and a Jewish community that was not always welcoming to survivors. By reflecting on how institutional supports, gender, and community relationships shaped the survivors’ settlement experiences, Abramson and Lynch show the relevance of these stories to current state policies on refugee immigration.

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786732852

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Shtetl by Eva Hoffman Pdf

In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Brafsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence -- still relevant to us today -- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.

Author : Ellie R. Schainker
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503600249

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Confessions of the Shtetl by Ellie R. Schainker Pdf

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates converts' tales of love, desperation, and fear, tracing the uneasy contest between religious choice and collective Jewish identity in tsarist Russia. Rather than viewing the shtetl as the foundation myth for modern Jewish nationhood, this work reveals the shtetl's history of conversions and communal engagement with converts, which ultimately yielded a cultural hybridity that both challenged and fueled visions of Jewish separatism. Drawing on extensive research with conversion files in imperial Russian archives, in addition to the mass press, novels, and memoirs, Ellie R. Schainker offers a sociocultural history of religious toleration and Jewish life that sees baptism not as the fundamental departure from Jewishness or the Jewish community, but as a conversion that marked the start of a complicated experiment with new forms of identity and belonging. Ultimately, she argues that the Jewish encounter with imperial Russia did not revolve around coercion and ghettoization but was a genuinely religious drama with a diverse, attractive, and aggressive Christianity.

Author : Steven T. Katz,Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Program for Jewish Studies Steven T Katz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814748015

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The Shtetl by Steven T. Katz,Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Director of the Program for Jewish Studies Steven T Katz Pdf

Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it. During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel. This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series.

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300152098

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The Death of the Shtetl by Yehuda Bauer Pdf

The author recounts the destruction of small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942.

Author : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691168517

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The Golden Age Shtetl by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Pdf

Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."

Author : Susan Anita Glenn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801497590

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Daughters of the Shtetl by Susan Anita Glenn Pdf

Examines the role of Jewish women immigrants in the garment industry in early twentieth-century America.

Author : Diane K. Roskies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : PSU:000033367842

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The Shtetl Book by Diane K. Roskies Pdf

Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Author : Jeffrey Shandler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813562742

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Shtetl by Jeffrey Shandler Pdf

In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post-Holocaust era, the shtetl looms large in public culture as the epitome of a bygone traditional Jewish communal life. People now encounter the Jewish history of these towns through an array of cultural practices, including fiction, documentary photography, film, memoirs, art, heritage tourism, and political activism. At the same time, the shtetl attracts growing scholarly interest, as historians, social scientists, literary critics, and others seek to understand both the complex reality of life in provincial towns and the nature of its wide-ranging remembrance. Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History traces the trajectory of writing about these towns—by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists and others—to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and studies. Shandler proposes that the intellectual history of the shtetl is best approached as an exemplar of engaging Jewish vernacularity, and that the variable nature of this engagement, far from being a drawback, is central to the subject’s enduring interest.

Author : Philip Bibel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121954189

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Tales of the Shtetl by Philip Bibel Pdf

Author : Yaffa Eliach
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0316232394

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There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach Pdf

For 900 years the Polish shtetl was a home to generations of Jewish families. In 1944 almost every Jew was murdered and with them died a way of life that had survived for centuries. Yaffa Eliach has written a landmark history of the shtetl.

Author : Ruth R. Wisse
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814318495

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A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas by Ruth R. Wisse Pdf

The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting--the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic--the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will discover a literary tradition of considerable scope, energy, and variety and will come face to face with an exceptionally memorable cast of characters and with a human community now irrevocably lost. In her general introduction, Professor Wisse traces the development of modern Yiddish literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and describes the many shifts that took place between the Yiddish writers and the world about which they wrote. She also furnishes a brief introduction for each novella, giving the historical and biographical background and offering a critical interpretation of the work.