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005    20240621212738.0
008    101005s2010    nyuabf   b    000 0 eng d
020    9781605981130
020    1605981133
035    (OCoLC)ocn601097691
035    212802
049    LHMA
040    BTCTA |beng |erda |cBTCTA |dYDXCP |dZGX |dZPX |dBWX |dLHM
050  4 DS135.U42 |bS638 2010
050  4 DK508.95
100 1  Bendavid-Val, Avrom.
245 14 The heavens are empty : |bdiscovering the lost town of Trochenbrod / |cAvrom Bendavid-Val.
250    First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
264  1 New York : |bPegasus Books, |c2010.
300    xxix, 221 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : |billustrations (some color), maps ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211).
520    "In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lives in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls--Jewish communities connected to larger towns--images of which are ingrained in popular imagination as the shtetl Anatevka from Fiddler on the Roof. Brimming with life and tradition, family and faith, these shtetls existed in the shadow of their town's oppressive anti-Jewish laws. Not Trochenbrod. Trochenbrod was the only freestanding, fully realized Jewish town in history. It began with a few settlers searching for freedom from the Russian Czars' oppressive policies, but over the next 130 years, Trochenbrod grew from a little row of houses to a bustling marketplace. In 1942, Trochenbrod vanished. Her residents slaughtered, her homes and factories razed to the ground. Yet the Nazis could not destroy the spirit of Trochenbrod, which has lived on in stories and legends about a little piece of heaven hidden deep in the forest..."--Dust cover flap.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
651  0 Sofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) |xHistory.
650  0 Jews |zUkraine |zSofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ) |xHistory.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zUkraine |zSofiïvka (Volynsʹka oblastʹ)
852 0   |bstacks |hDS135.U42 |iS638 2010