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1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
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Judaic studies series |
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Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
The two Shevchenkos -- The town -- Grandmother Beyla -- Grandfather Avrum -- Aaron and Leya -- The surprise (1914-1916) -- The marketplace -- Nobility and obscurity -- At Alta's house (1916-1917) -- Anna's prize (1916-1917) -- Between gentile and Jew -- Cousin Zavl -- Leya the smuggler (1917-1919) -- The first pogrom (March 1-8, 1918) -- The aftermath (March 1918) -- The Germans occupy Korsun (1918) -- Fall and winter in prewar Korsun -- The worst winter (1918-1919) -- Spring and summer in prewar Korsun -- Spring and summer (1919) -- The third pogrom (August 13-26, 1919) -- How to tell a sollop -- The two Korsuns -- Moscow (1919-1921) -- Petrograd (1921) -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Shtetl influences -- Appendix B. The shtetl memoir -- Appendix C. How true to reality is Anna's shtetl? -- Appendix D. Material from sources other than Anna |
| Summary |
A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto. Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Anna's father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna left in 1919, having lived through the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and part of |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Dien, Anna Spector, 1905-
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Dien, Anna Spector, 1905- fast |
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Jews -- Ukraine -- Korsunʹ-Shevchenkivsʹkyĭ -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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Ethnic relations
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Jews
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Korsunʹ-Shevchenkivsʹkyĭ (Ukraine) -- Ethnic relations
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Korsunʹ-Shevchenkivsʹkyĭ (Ukraine) -- History -- 20th century
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Ukraine -- Korsunʹ-Shevchenkivsʹkyĭ
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817381318 |
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0817381317 |
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