TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medvedeva,Doba-Mera
AU  - Beizer,Michael
AU  - Izrailévna Medvedeva,Doba-Mera
AU  - Nakhimovsky,Alice
TI  - Daughter of the Shtetl: The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva 
T2  - Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
SN  - 9781618115935
AV  - DS134.93.M43 
U1  - 947.084092 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Jewish communists
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Saint Petersburg
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jews
KW  - Belarus
KW  - Khotsimski rai︠o︡n
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 1
KW  - 1905
KW  - 2
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Marxist circles
KW  - One
KW  - Pale of settlement
KW  - Russia
KW  - Russian Jews
KW  - Two
KW  - WWI
KW  - WWII
KW  - World War I
KW  - World War II
KW  - Yiddish
KW  - biography
KW  - courtship
KW  - education
KW  - family heritage
KW  - family history
KW  - marriage
KW  - memoir
KW  - pogrom
KW  - pogroms
KW  - shtetl life
KW  - working-class
KW  - writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Translator’s Note --; My Babushka and Her Memoirs --; A Unique Memoirist in Turbulent Times --; A Diary of My Days --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618115935?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618115935
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781618115935/original
ER  -