Daughter of the Shtetl
The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva
Doba-Mera Medvedeva author Alice Nakhimovsky editor Michael Beizer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Academic Studies Press
Published:30th Apr '19
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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.
ISBN: 9781618114365
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158 pages