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The Enemy at His Pleasure

A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I

By: S. Ansky

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The Enemy at His Pleasure

A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I

By: S. Ansky

In daily accounts, Ansky details his struggles: to raise funds; to lobby and bribe at the czar's court; and to procure and transport food, medicine, and money to the ravaged Jewish towns, which, in the course of the war, were conquered and reconquered by Cossacks, Germans, Polish mercenaries, and Russian revolutionaries. Ansky depicts scenes of devastation - convoys of refugees, towns looted and burned to the ground, villagers taken hostage and raped, prey to all comers. Speaking to maids and ministers, farmers and recruits, doctors and profiteers, Ansky hears and sees it all, as the czar's army disintegrates and the winds of revolution sweep across the land."--BOOK JACKET.

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Macmillan

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0805059458

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9780805059458

The Dybbuk

And Other Writings

By: S. Ansky

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The Dybbuk

And Other Writings

By: S. Ansky

“An altogether excellent anthology, this volume offers a superior introduction to the brilliant, brooding works of a Yiddish master” (Publishers Weekly). This volume presents The Dybbuk, S. Ansky’s well-known drama of mystical passion and demonic possession, along with little-known works of his autobiographical and fantastical prose fiction and an excerpt from his four-volume chronicle of the Eastern Front in the First World War, The Destruction of Galacia.

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394

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Open Road Media

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1480440795

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9781480440791

The Jewish Dark Continent

Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

By: Nathaniel Deutsch,S An-Ski

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The Jewish Dark Continent

Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

By: Nathaniel Deutsch,S An-Ski

At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.” Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive—what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite—which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction. Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.

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385

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Harvard University Press

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0674062647

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9780674062641

Imagine My Joy

A Family History

By: Lawrence S. Freund

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Imagine My Joy

A Family History

By: Lawrence S. Freund

The story of Yitzhak and Gita Pearl Cramer, Shimon Levi and Dobeh Blinick and their descendants is the account of one extended family but also a reflection of its times. Told in large part through first-person recollections, this family history traces the events that shaped two centuries, from Vitebsk and pre-revolutionary Czarist Russia to mid-20th Century North America. More than the author suspected when he began his research, the family progenitors and those who followed were directly affected by the major currents of the past 200 years: the edicts, anti-Semitism and heavy-handed policing of the Russian czars; the tragedy of world war; the great 19th century escape from grim impoverishment and discrimination in Europe to the bright hope of North America; economic blight and later post-war achievement. This story – reflecting the passions, dreams and humor of these people – is their legacy.

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310

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462818080

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9781462818082

The Dybbuk

And Other Writings

By: S. Ansky

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And Other Writings

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Open Road Media

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Explore the Virgin Islands

By: Harry S. Pariser

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Explore the Virgin Islands

By: Harry S. Pariser

The fifth edition of this versatile, nicely organized, and easy-to-follow travel guidebook to the U.S. and British Virgin Islands includes 300+ Web sites and e-mail addresses, fax, and 1-800 numbers. There's thorough coverage of all the islands, big and small.

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1893643530

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The Enemy at His Pleasure

A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I

By: S. Ansky

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A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I

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The Enemy at His Pleasure

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Imagine My Joy

Imagine My Joy

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Explore the Virgin Islands

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