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A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Edited by Ruth R. Wisse Discount the Mediterranean

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the Mediterranean

Becoming Soviet Jews demonstrates that the often violent social changes enforced by the communist project did not destroy continuities with prerevolutionary forms of Jewish life in Minsk

He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive―what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite―which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture

' Harshav writes in the preface

A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Edited by Ruth R. Wisse Discount the MediterraneanThe five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting the Eastern European Jewish town or shtetl, and all deal in different ways with a single topic the Jewish confrontation with modernity. The authors of these novellas are among the greatest masters of Yiddish prose. In their work, today's reader will discover a literary tradition of considerable scope, energy, and variety and will

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