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Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking grandchildren. We see in the book the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life—family divisions in a time of scarce resources—and also her attempts to break free, through work, revolution, and, eventually, marriage. She lived through pogroms and two world wars, but she endured, remembered, and wrote.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator’s Note
  • My Babushka and Her Memoirs
  • Michael Beizer
  • A Unique Memoirist in Turbulent Times
  • Alice Nakhimovsky
  • A DIARY OF MY DAYS
  • Doba-Mera Izrailevna Medvedeva (Gurevich)

    Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera

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        Publisher: Academic Studies Press
        Publication Date: 16/05/2019
        ISBN13: 9781618114358, 978-1618114358
        ISBN10: 1618114352

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking grandchildren. We see in the book the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life—family divisions in a time of scarce resources—and also her attempts to break free, through work, revolution, and, eventually, marriage. She lived through pogroms and two world wars, but she endured, remembered, and wrote.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgments
        • Translator’s Note
        • My Babushka and Her Memoirs
        • Michael Beizer
        • A Unique Memoirist in Turbulent Times
        • Alice Nakhimovsky
        • A DIARY OF MY DAYS
        • Doba-Mera Izrailevna Medvedeva (Gurevich)

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