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Abyss of despair : the famous 17th century chronicle depicting Jewish life in Russia and Poland during the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649 = Yeven metzulah / Nathan Hanover ; translated from the Hebrew by Abraham J. Mesch ; with a new foreword by William B. Helmreich.

Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.P6 H313 1983

Book cover

Uniform Title: Yeṿen metsulah. English
Other Title: Yeven metzulah.
Series: Judaica series
Judaica series (Transaction Books)
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Hannover, Nathan Nata, -1683.
Published: New Brunswick : Transaction Books, c1983
Locale: Poland
Ukraine
Language: English

Physical Description: xv, 128 p., [5] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Other Authors/Editors: Mesch, Abraham J.
ISBN: 0878559272
Notes: Translation of: Yeṿen metsulah.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Bloch Pub. Co., 1950.
Subjects: Poland--Ethnic relations.
Ukraine--Ethnic relations.
Gezerot taḥ ve-tat, 1648-1649.
Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
Jews--Persecutions--Ukraine.
Khmelʹnyt͡sʹkyĭ, Bohdan,--ca. 1594-1657.
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