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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452327203321

Autore

Kotik Yekhezkel <1847-1921.>

Titolo

Journey to a nineteenth-century shtetl [[electronic resource] ] : the memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik / / edited with an introduction and notes by David Assaf ; [translated from the Yiddish by Margaret Birstein]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press in cooperation with The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, c2002

ISBN

0-8143-3733-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (543 p.)

Collana

Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology

Altri autori (Persone)

AssafDavid

BirsteinMargaret

Disciplina

947.08/092

Soggetti

Jews - Russia

Jews - Russia - Social life and customs - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published in Yiddish in 1913 as Mayne zikhroynes. Translated and published in Hebrew in 1998 as Mah she-ra'iti ... Zikhronotav shel Yekhezkel Kotik.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-511) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the English Edition""; ""A Note on the Translation""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: “Life as It Was��Yekhezkel Kotik and His Memoirs""; ""My Memoirs, Yekhezkel Kotik""; ""Instead of an Introduction""; ""Sholem Aleichem�s letter to Yekhezkel Kotik""; ""1. My Town""; ""2. My Grandfather""; ""3. The “Panic�""; ""4. My Father and His Attraction to Hasidism""; ""5. Yisrael, the Polish Patriot Hasid""; ""6. The Handshake""; ""7. The Scandal with the Assessor""; ""8. My Melamdim""; ""9. The Kidnappers""; ""10. The Great Dispute""

""11. My Motherâ€?s Unhappiness""""12. The Lords""; ""13. Berl-Bendetâ€?s Life on the Estate""; ""14. How We Celebrated the Holidays""; ""15. The Rebbe Is Dead!""; ""16. The Fate of a Prodigy""; ""17. The Garments of Those Days""; ""18. My First Revolt""; ""19. The Izbica Hasid""; ""20. Marriage Negotiations""; ""21. Liberating the Serfs""; ""22. The Jews after the Polish Rebellion""; ""23. “Keep in Step!â€?""; ""24. The Debate""; ""25. “Children, Gather the Coins!â€?""; ""26. The Impact of the Bible on Me""; ""27. The Cholera Epidemic""; ""28. Grandmotherâ



€?s Death""

""29. Hasidism and Mitnaggedism""""Appendix A: Yekhezkel Kotik: List of Publications""; ""Appendix B: Selected Bibliography on Yekhezkel Kotik and His Memoirs""; ""Appendix C: Yekhezkel Kotik�s Genealogy""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Indexes of Names, Places, and Subjects""; ""Indexe of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""

""Y""""Z""; ""Indexe of Places""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Indexe of Subjects""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""