In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine by Jeffrey Veidlinger Discount This startling novel reveals the

This startling novel reveals the tensions and triumphs of coming of age in a revolutionary time

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painful decisions that will have unavoidably tragic repercussions

In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine by Jeffrey Veidlinger Discount This startling novel reveals theThe story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlingers reappraisal of the traditional narrative of 20th century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in