{"product_id":"the-belarusian-shtetl-history-and-memory-hardback-9780253067302","title":"The Belarusian Shtetl; History and Memory (Hardback) 9780253067302","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Belarusian Shtetl\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory and Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIrina Kopchenova (Edited by), Mikhail Krutikov (Edited by), Ina Sorkina (Contributions by), Arkadi Zeltser (Contributions by), Svetlana Amosova (Contributions by), Andrei B. Moroz (Contributions by), Julia Bernstein (Contributions by), Mikhail Lurie (Contributions by), Natalia Savina (Contributions by), Miron Mordukhvich (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253067302\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e302 pages, 39 b\u0026amp;w illus., 4 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.544 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a world of AI and fake news, it is refreshing to come across two sophisticated scholars who still remember that they are studying real people. They successfully brought together in one volume expert academic analyses of small-town (shtetl) life written by some of the best researchers from Eastern Europe together with a collection of exceptional primary sources. There is nothing like it. \u003ci\u003eThe Belarusian Shtetl\u003c\/i\u003e is hard to put down and it is impossible to stop thinking about it.\"—Shaul Stampfer, Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewish History (emeritus), Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. \u003ci\u003eThe Belarusian Shtetl\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, \u003ci\u003eThe Belarusian Shtetl\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Geographical Names, Transliteration and Maps\u003cbr\u003e Maps\u003cbr\u003e Introduction, by Samuel D. Kassow, Irina Kopchenova, and Mikhail Krutikov\u003cbr\u003e History, Folklore, Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e 1. Between \u003ci\u003eMestechko\u003c\/i\u003e and Shtetl: Ethnicity and Religion in Belarusian Small Towns, 1800s–1930s, by Ina Sorkina\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Soviet Belarusian Shtetl: Between Tradition and Modernization in the 1920s and 1930s, by Arkadi Zeltser\u003cbr\u003e 3. Days of Remembrance for Jews of the Russo-Belarusian Borderlands, by Svetlana Amosova\u003cbr\u003e 4. Why Hitler Didn't Like the Jews: The Folklore Version of the Reasons Behind the Holocaust, by Andrei B. Moroz\u003cbr\u003e Hlybokaye: Memories of the Shtetl\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Death of the Shtetl of Hlybokaye through the Eyes of Its Teenagers, by Julia Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Family between the Ghetto and Red Army Partisans: Two Holocaust Testimonies from Hlybokaye, by Julia Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e 7. Daily Life in the Hlybokaye Ghetto: Photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by Irina Kopchenova\u003cbr\u003e 8. Memory on Demand: The Jewish Past in Today's Hlybokaye, by Mikhail Lurie and Natalia Savina\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e The Shtetl of Zhaludok: A Memoir, by Miron Mordukhvich\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525595787544,"sku":"9780253067302","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-belarusian-shtetl-history-and-memory-hardback-9780253067302","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}