TY - BOOK ID - 85670108 TI - Daughter of the shtetl AU - Medvedeva, Doba-Mera AU - Nakhimovsky, Alice S AU - Beĭzer, M PY - 2019 SN - 1618115936 1618114352 9781618115935 9781618114358 PB - Boston DB - UniCat KW - Jewish communists KW - Jews KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. KW - 1905. KW - Jewish courtship and marriage. KW - Jewish education. KW - Jewish memoirs. KW - Jewish women’s education. KW - Jewish women’s writing. KW - Jews of Russia. KW - Jews. KW - Marxist circles among Jews. KW - Pale of settlement. KW - Russia. KW - Russian Jews. KW - WWI. KW - WWII. KW - World War 1. KW - World War 2. KW - World War I. KW - World War II. KW - World War One. KW - World Way Two. KW - Yiddish. KW - biography. KW - family heritage. KW - family history. KW - memoir. KW - noteooks. KW - pogrom. KW - pogroms. KW - shtetl life. KW - shtetl. KW - working-class Jews. KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Communism KW - Communists KW - Medvedeva, Doba-Mera, KW - Khotsimski rai︠o︡n (Belarus) KW - Saint Petersburg (Russia) KW - Gurevich, Doba-Mera, KW - Medvedeva, Miriam, KW - Gurevich, Miriam, KW - Khotimskiĭ raĭon (Belarus) KW - Хоцімскі раён (Belarus) KW - Хотимский район (Belarus) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85670108 AB - Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world. The book reveals the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life at a time of scarce resources, and describes how Doba-Mera survives two pogroms and two world wars. Around 1905, barely a teenager but already earning a living, she joins Marxist circles and takes part in clandestine activities. Through her eyes we experience the class divisions in shtetl and synagogue, as well as aspects of everyday life such as education, courtship and marriage, housing, food, illness, and the organization of the working life and working conditions in sewing shops. ER -