In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Yiddish Memories of Small-Town Jewish Life in Ukraine

New Books in Jewish Studies by New Books Network

Aug 12, 202659:30Religion & Spirituality

Drawing from some four hundred Yiddish-language interviews conducted by the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories project, Jeffrey Veidlinger will explore how elderly Yiddish speakers in Ukraine descri...

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