- Series
- Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and their legacy
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Medvedeva, Doba-Mera, 1892-1976, author.
- Published
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2019
- Locale
- Belarus
Khotsimski rai͡on
Russia (Federation)
Saint Petersburg
Khotsimski rai͡on (Belarus)
Saint Petersburg (Russia)
- Other Authors/Editors
- Nakhimovsky, Alice S., editor, translator, writer of supplementary textual content.
Beĭzer, M. (Mikhail), editor, writer of supplementary textual content.
- Notes
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"Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. The book reveals the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life at a time of scarce resources, and describes how Doba-Mera survives two pogroms and two world wars. Around 1905, barely a teenager but already earning a living, she joins Marxist circles and takes part in clandestine activities. Through her eyes we experience the class divisions in shtetl and synagogue, as well as aspects of everyday life such as education, courtship and marriage, housing, food, illness, and the organization of the working life and working conditions in sewing shops"--The publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
