The Shochet (Vol. 2): A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea - Paperback

$63.45

The Shochet (Vol. 2): A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea - Paperback

Name: The Shochet (Vol. 2): A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea - Paperback
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SKU: 9798887196138
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$63.45

by Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn (Author), Michoel Rotenfeld (Translator)

"You have to read this book... It's not like anything you read before." -- Tablet Magazine

Set in Ukraine, Crimea, and Israel, this unique two-volume autobiography offers a fascinating, detailed picture of life in Tsarist Russia and Israel during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was orphaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and self-confident, he is a keen observer of his surroundings. His accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity.
The memoir is brimming with information for a student of history. Goldenshteyn's adventures shed light on communal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and beliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other religious communities, epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migration, war, technology, modernity and secularization. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn inadvertently tells a bigger story--the story of how a small, oppressed people, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive Russian Empire and in the Land of Israel.
Volume two begins in 1873, when Goldenshteyn obtains his first position as a shochet in Slobodze, and it follows him to the Crimea, where he endures 34 years of vicissitudes. In 1913, he fulfills a dream of immigrating to the Land of Israel, hoping to find tranquility in his old age. Instead, he is met with the turbulence of the First World War, as battles rage between the retreating Ottoman Turks and the advancing British forces.
Informed by research in Ukranian, Israeli, and American archives and personal interviews with the few surviving individuals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, The Shochet is a magnificent new contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.

Number of Pages: 500

Publication Date: October 22, 2024

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