Shtetl The History Of A Small Town & An Extinguished World

Author: HOFFMAN EVA

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Price : 31.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781586485245
Publisher : PALG
Imprint : PALG
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Weight (g) : 0.363
Publication date : 17 September 2007
Dimensions : 210mm X 140mm X 23mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : HOFFMAN EVA
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Pages : 288
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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 Brafsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence-still 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.