Shtetl - The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished World

Informationen zum Autor Eva Hoffman, writer and academic, was born in Cracow, Poland in 1945. She has since lived in Canada, the U. S. A. and England. Among her books are Lost in Translation , After Such Knowledge , Exit into History and Shtetl . The last two are reissued in Faber Finds. Klappentext Before World War II! Bransk was a shtetl whose population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today there are no Jews. This title reconstructs the lost world of East European Jewry. Zusammenfassung Before World War II, Bransk was a shtetl whose population was equally divided between Poles and Jews. Today there are no Jews. This title reconstructs the lost world of East European Jewry.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Hoffman, Hoffman Eva
• Assisted by: Ev Hoffman (Editor), Eva Hoffman (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780571256112
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25611-2
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 126 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, Poland, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Faber Finds; Holocaust; Jewish; Murder; Nazi Germany