About this title: Today, the word "shtetl" (Yiddish for "small town") summons only hazy, distant associations: images of Chagall-like crooked streets and Sabbath dinners on the one hand, of pogroms and brutal Cossacks on the other. In fact the shtetl was a highly resilient micro-society with its own customs, beliefs and rituals, its own social distictions, organization and civic structires. It was also an experiment in multiculturalism, cut short by the tragedy of the Holocaust. Before World War II, Brasnk in eastern Poland, was a shtetl whos population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today, there ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth & Original Wra
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780436204821ISBN:0436204827
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0436204827. A Beautiful copy of this First Edition. Very clean and tidy protected dust wrapper*. No significant dirt-a touch to the rear panel only. No chips or tears. Not clipped. The book itself is very clean and tidy, with no significant damage to it. No inscriptions. This is an excellent copy. (*All our wrappers are protected in removable clear plastic film).; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker and Warburg
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780436204821ISBN:0436204827
Description: As New in As New jacket. AS NEW UNREAD UNUSED hardback with MINT dust-jacket rare 1st edition copy of this "history of an extinguished world". Why fascism must be smashed wherever it appears. read more
Description: New. 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 Bra’sk, 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 ... read more
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