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In the shadow of the shtetl, small-town Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine, Jeffrey Veidlinger

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index

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In the shadow of the shtetl

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Jeffrey Veidlinger

small-town Jewish life in Soviet Ukraine

Drawn from the memoires and memories of 400 Jews who grew up in the Vinnitsa area of the Ukraine, which was controlled by the Soviets, then (briefly) by the Nazis, and then (briefly and only in part) by the Romanian government during the Second World War. The overall pattern of genocide is different in this district from other parts of Eastern and Central Europe. Some Jewish communities reappeared after the war with as much as three quarters of their population

The shtetl: a historical landscape -- The scars of revolution -- Social structure of the Soviet shtetl -- Growing up in Yiddish -- The sanctuary of the synagogue -- Religion of the home: food and faith -- Life and death in Reichkommissariat Ukraine -- Life beyond the river: Transnistria -- A kind of victory -- Conclusion