Journey to a Nineteenth-century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik 0814334210, 9780814334218

Journey to a Nineteenth-century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik 0814334210, 9780814334218

Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author

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Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva 9781618115935

Daughter of the Shtetl is an unusual memoir by an uneducated but sharply observant Jewish woman. Through the eyes of Dob

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The Death of the Shtetl 9780300154887

In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, describes the destruction of small Jewish

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To Our Children: Memoirs of Displacement. A Jewish Journey of Hope and Survival in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond 9781618114792

This book takes the reader through Dr. Włodzimierz Szer’s childhood in Yiddish prewar Warsaw, adolescence and imprisonme

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A Journey To The Interior Of The Earth 1920265023, 9781920265021

"A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" is Jules Verne's classic science fiction adventure about Profess

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Memoirs of a Cavalier

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The Shtetl: Image and Reality 1351198378, 9781351198370

"There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what t

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The Shtetl: New Evaluations 9780814790113

Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to

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Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History 9780813562742

In Yiddish, shtetl simply means “town.” How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture,

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Memoirs of a 'Lazy Korfa'

Even if you do not have a clue about the Nigerian National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) scheme, you will discover in this e

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