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

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By (author): Doba-Mera Medvedeva

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking grandchildren. We see in the book the quarrelsome underside of shtetl lifefamily divisions in a time of scarce resourcesand also her attempts to break free, through work, revolution, and, eventually, marriage. She lived through pogroms and two world wars, but she endured, remembered, and wrote. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 234 x 155mm
  • Publication Date: 09 May 2019
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781618114365

About Doba-Mera Medvedeva

Alice Nakhimovsky is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Colgate University. She is best known for her book Russian Jewish Literature and Identity (Johns Hopkins 1991). Her latest book Dear Mendel Dear Reyzel: Yiddish Letter Manuals in Russia and America (Indiana University Press 2015) written with Roberta Newman won a National Jewish Book Award.Historian Michael Beizer of Hebrew University Jerusalem is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian Jewry. His Jews of St. Petersburg out in three languages was a groundbreaking study of a group whose existence at the time was barely acknowledged. His latest book is Relief in a time of Need: Russian Jewry and the Joint 1919-1924 (Slavica 2015).

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