Tales of the Shtetl
Author: Philip Bibel
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
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The Lost Shtetl
Author: Max Gross
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 0062991140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWINNER 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.
Confessions of the Shtetl
Author: Ellie R. Schainker
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016-11-16
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1503600246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 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.
In the Shadow of the Shtetl
Author: Jeffrey Veidlinger
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0253011523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
The Death of the Shtetl
Author: Yehuda Bauer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0300152094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recounts the destruction of small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942.
Tales of Tolochin
Author: Yehuda Rothstein
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781735398617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTales of Tolochin presents the history of a classical shtetl told through the experiences of two Jewish families, the Poretzkys and the Rutsteins. Come follow the rise and decline of the village of Tolochin in Belarus and learn how these two families fled the pogroms that ravaged their homeland and how, with their help of their most famous son, Jacob Rutstein, they reconstituted themselves in a new world.
There Once Was a World
Author: Yaffa Eliach
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1999-10-06
Total Pages: 864
ISBN-13: 9780316232395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor 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.
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
Author: Yaffa Eliach
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780195031997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on interviews and oral histories, this collection of 89 stories is the first anthology of Hasidic stories about the Holocaust, and the first ever in which women play a large role.
The Montreal Shtetl
Author: Zelda Abramson
Publisher: Between the Lines
Published: 2019-01-29
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1771134054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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.
The Jews of Chicago
Author: Irving Cutler
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780252021855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photos, this fascinating history of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish communities. 15 maps. Graphs & tables.
