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

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate,...
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Author: Doba-Mera Medvedeva
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Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva by Medvedeva, Doba-Mera

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

CHF 30.18

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

CHF 30.18
Author: Doba-Mera Medvedeva
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Doba-Mera Medvedeva
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 04/23/2019
Pages: 158
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9781618114365

About the Author

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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