Anna's shtetl / Lawrence A. Coben.
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 E...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Alabama Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
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| 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 Bolshevik Revolution, and part of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817381318 0817381317 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |