{"product_id":"daughter-of-the-shtetl-the-memoirs-of-doba-mera-medvedeva-9781618114365","title":"Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoba-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslator’s Note\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Babushka and Her Memoirs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMichael Beizer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Unique Memoirist in Turbulent Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlice Nakhimovsky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA DIARY OF MY DAYS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoba-Mera Izrailevna Medvedeva (Gurevich)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359749767511,"sku":"9781618114365","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618114365.jpg?v=1754125596","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/daughter-of-the-shtetl-the-memoirs-of-doba-mera-medvedeva-9781618114365","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}