Shtetl
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 Braƒsk, she looks...
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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 Braƒsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistencestill 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781586485245 (1586485245)
Publish date: October 9th 2007
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Jewish,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Judaism,
Judaica,
Polish Literature,
Poland
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