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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 the ensuing civil war, as well as several episodes of more or less organized pogroms—deadly anti-Jewish riots begun by various invading military detachments during the Russian Civil War and joined by some of Korsun’s peasants. In the early 1990s Anna met Lawrence A. Coben, a medical doctor seeking information about the shtetls to recapture a sense of his own heritage. Anna had near-perfect recall of her daily life as a girl and young woman in the last days in one of those historic but doomed communities. Her rare account, the product of some 300 interviews, is valuable because most personal memoirs of ghetto life are written by men. Also, very often, Christian neighbors appear in ghetto accounts as a stolid peasant mass assembled on market days, as destructive mobs, or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility. Anna’s story is exceptionally rich in a sense of the Korsun Christians as friends, neighbors, and individuals. Although the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are now virtually gone, less than 100 years ago they counted a population of millions. The firsthand records we have from that lost world are therefore important, and this view from the underrecorded lives of women and the young is particularly welcome.
- Sales Rank: #3677186 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University Alabama Press
- Published on: 2007-01-05
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.20" w x 6.13" l, 1.30 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 243 pages
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“A fascinating, well-written work describing Anna Spector’s life in a Ukranian shtetl during the early 20th century and her escalating tribulations in the violent political turbulence. Dr. Coben’s standard for verification of Anna’s account is both stringent and prodigious. The scope and particulars of shtetl life are detailed with cogency and scholarly authentication.”—Joann Rose Leonard, author of The Soup Has Many Eyes
“Wondrous. . . . What makes [Anna] Dien’s story truly remarkable is her uncanny memory and her ability to recall minute details about events.”—West End Word
“Using hundreds of interviews . . . Coben has created a fascinating account of Anna’s childhood in the shtetl in Korsun, Ukraine, telling the story from her birth in 1905 through her immigration to America in 1919. This biography is especially rare because there are very few firsthand descriptions from this time and place written from a female perspective. With remarkable clarity and detail, Anna describes the relationship between Korsun’s Jews and Christians, both in good times and later, as she and her family became victims in several terrifying pogroms. The story of the long journey that finally takes them to America is a page-turner that keeps the reader’s attention to the very end. Highly recommended.”—Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter
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A rare view of a childhood in a European shtetl.
Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian shtetl, a small town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by Tsarina Catherine the Great of Russia 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 First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and part of the ensuing civil war, as well as several pogroms--deadly anti-Jewish riots begun by various invading military detachments during the Russian Civil War and joined by some of Korsun's peasants.
In the early 1990s Anna met Lawrence A. Coben, a medical doctor seeking information about the shtetls to recapture a sense of his own heritage. Anna had remarkable recall of her daily life as a girl and young woman in one of those historic communities. Her rare account, the product of some 300 interviews, is valuable because the majority of personal memoirs of shtetl life are written by men. Also, very often, Christian neighbors appear in shtetl accounts as a peasant mass assembled on market days, as destructive mobs, or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility. Anna's story is exceptionally rich in a sense of the Korsun Christians as friends, neighbors, and individuals.
Although the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are now virtually gone, less than 100 years ago they counted a population of millions. The firsthand records we have from that lost world are therefore important, and this view from the underrecorded lives of women and the young is particularly welcome.
Lawrence A. Coben, M.D., is Associate Professor Emeritus of Neurology at Washington University in Saint Louis.
About the Author
Lawrence A. Coben, M.D., is Associate Professor Emeritus of Neurology at Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Good but sterile pseudo-fictional reconstruction of the life of a Jewish girl during Russian Revolution
By Leo Mirkin
Good but sterile reconstruction of the pre-revolutionary life of Jews in villages below the Pale of Settlement line (The territories of the Russian Empire in which Jews were permitted permanent settlement). Author shows an apartheid-like life in these villages without a comment or a historic comparison. He demonstrates how hostilities against Jewish population explode at the start of decay of the Russian Empire and rise of the Socialist State. His portrait of brutality and inhumanity of the emerging Socialist State lacks any moral commentary, same as the Anti-Semitic fervor of the Russian Orthodox Church before the revolution.
Either from ignorance or other reasons author gingerly avoids showing role of Judaism in the organization and life of a Jewish shtetl. He choose to reconstruct the life of a Jewish shtetl as seen by a girl mostly distant or ignorant of the Jewish aspects of that life and desperately wanting to assimilate. As the result his reconstruction misses the deeper view of emerging socialist roots of the Holocaust and destruction of the Jewish way of life in the Europe. Still, his efforts preserve a snippet of unique life during great upheaval of history. Anna was extremely lucky to survive and keep the memory of the lives that were.
I strongly recommend for continuation and expansion of that history the great book by Orlando Figes, The Whispereres: Private Life in Stalin's Russia.
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A wonderful telling of 1905 life in a Russian Shtetl ...
By Magda Denes
For me, this has been the most interesting book on life in a shtetl that I have ever read and I do have a fondness for some other titles. My next project is 'Journey To A Nineteenth Century Shtetl' by David Assaf. I hope I can be so lucky as to enjoy reading 'Journey' as much as I've enjoyed 'Anna's Shtetl'.
How Anna became such a highly intelligent person given her early hardships and a repeatedly interrupted education. She was 11 years old, living in Korsun, a small town in Russia. I was amazed at how persevering the attempts were to have a school, to teach youngsters in harshly cold or warring conditions. There was some continuity and ingenious functioning system in Korsun until three back-to-back pogroms rendered the townspeople destitute, their clothes into rags, their food destroyed or stolen, their windows broken letting in the extreme cold, homes burned, senseless murders of townsfolk.
Before the pogroms people had foyers so wide that a two-horse team and wagon could be driven into it....sometimes to stay a whole night. Water bearers would come around selling water. Neighbors knew who to go to, to buy 1-2 small cubes of sugar at a time.
This true storytelling drew me in such a way that I felt like I knew the people, felt a kinship with them.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely a compelling read
By Susan Edelman
I loved this book and its details of the difficult and harrowing life in the Ukraine. This is the story of my maternal great grandmother and so it is particularly compelling for me. Fortunately, my great grandmother was sufficiently able to give my grandmother and her husband passage to New York.
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