Anna's shtetl / Lawrence A. Coben.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coben, Lawrence A.

Series:

Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)

Judaic studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Ukraine--Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi--Biography.

Jews.

Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi (Ukraine)--Ethnic relations.

Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi (Ukraine).

Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi (Ukraine)--History--20th century.

Dien, Anna Spector, 1905-.

Dien, Anna Spector.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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 Bols

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-232) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8131-7

OCLC:

320323546