The Belarusian Shtetl - History and Memory (Hardcover)

For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. Since 2012, under the auspices of the Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, teams of scholars and students from many different disciplines have returned to the sites of former Jewish shtetls in Belarus to reconstruct their past. These researchers have interviewed a wide range of both Jews and non-Jews to find and document traces of Shtetl history, to gain insights into community memories, and to discover surviving markers of identity and ethnic affiliation. In the process, they have also unearthed evidence from old cemeteries and prewar houses and the stories behind memorials erected for Holocaust victims. Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, The Belarusian Shtetl creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl. Important for scholars and accessible to the public, these portraits set out to return the Jewish shtetls to their rightful places of prominence in the histories and legacies of Belarus.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Jews in Eastern Europe
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	Irina Kopchenova • Mikhail Krutikov
Contributors:	Ina Sorkina • Arkadi Zeltser • Svetlana Amosova • Andrei B. Moroz • Julia Bernstein • Mikhail Lurie • Natalia Savina • Miron Mordukhvich
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-06730-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-253-06730-8
Barcode:	9780253067302

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