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Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva
Contributor(s): Medvedeva, Doba-Mera (Author), Nakhimovsky, Alice (Editor), Nakhimovsky, Alice (Translator)
ISBN: 1618114352     ISBN-13: 9781618114358
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
OUR PRICE:   $103.55  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Jewish
- Religion | Judaism - History
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2018056648
Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.88 lbs) 158 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Jewish
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. The book reveals the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life at a time of scarce resources, and describes how Doba-Mera survives two pogroms and two world wars. Around 1905, barely a teenager but already earning a living, she joins Marxist circles and takes part in clandestine activities. Through her eyes we experience the class divisions in shtetl and synagogue, as well as aspects of everyday life such as education, courtship and marriage, housing, food, illness, and the organization of the working life and working conditions in sewing shops.

Contributor Bio(s): Nakhimovsky, Alice: - 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.Beizer, Michael: - 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).