Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who
are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from
the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller
whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language
notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking
grandchildren. We see in the book the quarrelsome underside of
shtetl life-family divisions in a time of scarce resources-and also
her attempts to break free, through work, revolution, and,
eventually, marriage. She lived through pogroms and two world wars,
but she endured, remembered, and wrote.
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