{"product_id":"sf-355-7","title":"The Shochet - Volume 1","description":"\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cbig\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Memoir of Jewish Life\u003cbr\u003eIn Ukraine and Crimea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/big\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Ukraine and Crimea, this unique autobiography offers a fascinat-\u003cbr\u003eing, detailed picture of life in late nineteenth - and early twentieth-century\u003cbr\u003eTsarist Russia. Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a traditional Jew who was or-\u003cbr\u003ephaned as a young boy, is a master storyteller. Folksy, funny, streetwise, and\u003cbr\u003eself-confident, he is a keen observer of nineteenth-century Eastern Europe.\u003cbr\u003eHis accounts are vivid and readable, sometimes stunning in their intensity.\u003cbr\u003eThe memoir is brimming with information; his adventures shed light on\u003cbr\u003ecommunal life, persecution, family relationships, religious practices and\u003cbr\u003ebeliefs, social classes, local politics, interactions between Jews and other\u003cbr\u003ereligious communities (including Muslims, who formed the majority of\u003cbr\u003eCrimea's populace), epidemics, poverty, competition for resources, migra-\u003cbr\u003etion, war, modernity and secularization, holy men and charlatans, acts of\u003cbr\u003ekindness and acts of treachery. In chronicling his own life, Goldenshteyn\u003cbr\u003einadvertently tells a bigger story - the story of how a small, oppressed\u003cbr\u003epeople, among other minority groups, struggled for survival in the massive\u003cbr\u003eRussian Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil now, only a small circle of Yiddish-speaking scholars had access\u003cbr\u003eto this extremely significant primary source. This translation is a game-\u003cbr\u003echanger, making this treasure trove of information accessible to academics\u003cbr\u003eand ordinary readers alike. Informed by research in Ukrainian, Israeli, and\u003cbr\u003eAmerican archives and personal interviews with the few surviving indi-\u003cbr\u003eviduals who knew Goldenshteyn personally, \u003ci\u003eThe Shochet\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent\u003cbr\u003enew contribution to Jewish and Eastern European history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichoel Rotenfeld\u003c\/b\u003e is a historical researcher who has\u003cbr\u003elong been fascinated by Jewish memory in its myriad\u003cbr\u003eforms, especially the genre of Jewish autobiography. He\u003cbr\u003eis the director of Touro University Library's \u003ci\u003eProject Zikaron\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003ea permanent collection of previously uncollated and\u003cbr\u003eundigitized historical material from Jewish communities\u003cbr\u003eacross the world. He also coordinated the digitization\u003cbr\u003eof David Tidhar's nineteen - volume \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of the\u003cbr\u003eFounders and Builders of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ca href=\"\/\/tidhar.tourolib.org\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:blue\"\u003ewww.tidhar.tourolib.org\u003c\/a\u003e),\u003cbr\u003ewhich has received over two million page views.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67969099792583,"sku":"SF-355-7","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3625\/8657\/files\/SF-355-7.jpg?v=1792544765","url":"https:\/\/judaicaplaza.com\/products\/sf-355-7","provider":"Judaica Plaza","version":"1.0","type":"link"}