Shtetl The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews

Name: Shtetl The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews
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ISBN: 9780395822951

ISBN-10: 0395822955

ISBN-13: 9780395822951

Edition: 1997 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Eva Hoffman

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Today the word "shtetl" (Yiddish for "small town") summons only hazy associations: images of Chagall-like crooked streets and glowing Sabbath dinners on one hand, of pogroms and brutal Cossacks on the other. In the artful hands of Eva Hoffman, Shtetl brings this lost world back to life, mining the deep rifts in Polish-Jewish relations in the small town of Bransk. With penetrating intelligence and a compassionate eye, Hoffman describes the culture and conflicts that influenced Christian villagers decisions to conceal or betray Jewish neighbors when the Nazis invaded.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 10/2/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland and eventually emigrated to Canda with her family. She received a Ph. D. from Harvard University. She taught literature and was the editor of the New York Times Book Review. Hoffman is the author of such books as Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1989) and Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews (1997).