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Daughter of the Shtetl : The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva, Paperback / softback Book

Daughter of the Shtetl : The Memoirs of Doba-Mera Medvedeva Paperback / softback

Edited by Michael Beizer

Part of the Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy series

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Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishing group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world.

A born story-teller whose first language was Yiddish, Medvedeva kept Russian-language notebooks to preserve her past for her Russian-speaking grandchildren.

We see in the book the quarrelsome underside of shtetl life—family divisions in a time of scarce resources—and also her attempts to break free, through work, revolution, and, eventually, marriage.

She lived through pogroms and two world wars, but she endured, remembered, and wrote.

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