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General Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of ModernityBooksGershon David Hundert 
 Copyright Date: 2004
Edition: 1
Published by: University of California Press
Pages: 305
GeneralA Journey in Two WorldsTravel ReportsMike Maidenberg
 This is Michael Maidenberg
GeneralA Kasha, a quick storyRecipesDeborah Glassman
GeneralBubba's Ukrainian-Yiddishe Noshery, Recipes from the Jewish UkraineRecipes 
GeneralEncyclopedia Judaica, 2nd editionGeneral Reference 
GeneralEncyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001, Reference)General Reference 
GeneralEntrees: Bean & Barley SoupRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralEntrees: Beetroot BorschRecipesEliana Aizim
GeneralEntrees: Cabbage BorschRecipesEliana Aizim
GeneralEntrees: Chicken SoupRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralEntrees: Eyer KichelRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralEntrees: Glazed CarrotsRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralEntrees: Potato LatkesRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralEntrees: ZakoyaRecipesDaniel Nussbaum II
GeneralFrom WARSAW to KIEV and to ODESSA via ZHMERINKA (From Baedeker's Russia Guide 1914, p374-75)Travel ReportsPaul Silverstone
GeneralJewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus-EfronGeneral Reference 
 Period: 1908-1913Online Encyclopedia
GeneralLife is With People: The Culture of the ShtetlBooksMark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog 
 Life Is with People takes us inside a world that exists today only in memory. It allows us to enter the lives of Jewish communities in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe as they had existed before the Holocaust. It attempts to define the Jewish ethos that informs the day-to-day lives of the men, women, and children of the shtetl. And it re-creates the flavor of the Sabbath, the nature of education, the rituals of marriage, and ethics of parenting in a community that prides itself on its unique and cohesive culture. As a cultural portrait, it has never been surpassed for its richly detailed and evocative depiction of the world from which most American Jews are descended.
GeneralLost Recipes: Pompitchkes Recipes 
GeneralMain Course: Meatballs & sauceRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralPinkas Ha'kehilot Encyclopaedia General Reference 
GeneralPolin: Studies in Polish Jewry,Volume Seventeen: The Shtetl: Myth and RealityBooksAntony Polonsky 
 The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research. This volume redresses that imbalance, with leading experts investigating the social and economic history of the shtetl as well as the way in which shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature.
GeneralShtetl Finder Gazetteer by Chester G. CohenGeneral Reference 
GeneralShtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish JewsBooksEva Hoffman 
 Relations between Jews and Poles were troubled even before World War II began, writes Eva Hoffman in this powerful memoir of life under Nazi occupation. Dealings between the groups were no easier with the arrival of a common enemy, who exploited longstanding anti-Semitism to destroy the inhabitants of both city and shtetl, the rural Eastern European small town that stood as
GeneralSide Dishes: Cabbage Side DishRecipesFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralSlownik Geograficzny (Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries)General Reference 
 Slownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów slowianskich
GeneralStudies in Polish Jewry,Volume Ten: Jews in Early Modern PolandBooksGershon David Hundert 
 Jewish society in Poland-Lithuania in the second half of the eighteenth century was by no means insular: Jews numbered about 750,000, and comprised about half the urban population of the country. The contact between Jews and the wider Polish society found expression in the languages Jews knew, in their marriage patterns, even in their synagogue architecture and decoration, but also in Polish accusations of Jewish ritual murder. All these aspects are here systematically reviewed. Internal factors influencing developments within Jewish society are discussed: treatments of the medieval rabbinic ban on polygamy, as well as various influences of the growing interest in kabbalah-its impact on synagogue structure, on prayer, and on the spiritual world of women. The growth of Hasidism is considered through critical analysis of the legends about its founder, Israel Ba
GeneralThe Slaughter of the Jews In the Ukraine In 1919BooksElias Heifetz, J.U.D. 
 The basis of this book if material gathered by delegates of the All-Ukrainian Relief Committee for the victims of pogroms, under the auspices of the Red Cross.
GeneralThe Cooks: Bella TEPLITZKY NUSSBAUM PeopleDaniel Nussbaum II
GeneralThe Cooks: Sophia/Sheva (GUREVICH) AISINPeopleEliana Aizim
GeneralThe Cooks: The Nerenberg ladiesPeopleFlorence Nerenberg Elman
GeneralThe Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War IBooksAnsky, S. (Shloyme Zanvel ben-Aaron Rappaport) 
 Ansky, S. (Shloyme Zanvel ben-Aaron Rappaport) (2004). The Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I. Edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Holt Paperbacks, Paperback, 352 pages. ISBN: 0805059458.
GeneralThe Lord's Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Eighteenth CenturyBooksM.J. Rosman 
 In the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Jews and magnates in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, M. J. Rosman shows the influence of the Jews on economic, social, and political life in the Polish, Ukrainian, and Belorussian territories, and offers new perspectives on their relations with magnates. Rosman focuses on two major questions: What were the principal spheres of interaction between the Jews and the nobility? What was the significance of this interaction for both parties?
GeneralThe Shtetl BookBooksDiane K. Roskies and David G. Roskies 
 Once, most of world Jewry was divided along The Gefilte Fish Line: cold and calculated Litvaks to the north, warm-blooded mystics to the south. Once, the majority of Jews lived in medieval market towns, surrounded by rivers, lakes, and forests. They were linked to each other through The Three K
GeneralUkraine Journal: A Genealogical Journey to Warsaw and Ukraine (2002)Travel ReportsRon Doctor
GeneralUkraine: An Illustrated HistoryBooks Paul Robert Magocsi 
 Ukraine is Europe’s second-largest state. Roughly the size of Germany and Great Britain or the states of Arizona and New Mexico combined, it shares borders with seven countries and in 2001 had a population of more than 48 million. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a concise and easy-to-read historical survey of the country from earliest times to the present. Each of the book’s forty-six chapters is framed by a historical map, which graphically depicts the key elements of the chronological period or theme addressed within. In addition, over 300 historic photographs, line drawings, portraits, and reproductions of books and works of art bring the rich past of Ukraine to life.

Rather than limiting his study to an examination of the country’s numerically largest population – ethnic Ukrainians – acclaimed scholar Paul Robert Magocsi emphasizes the multicultural nature of Ukraine throughout its history. While ethnic Ukrainians figure prominently, Magocsi also deals with all the other peoples who live or who have lived within the borders of present-day Ukraine: Russians, Poles, Jews, Crimean Tatars, Germans (including Mennonites), and Greeks, among others. This book is an indispensable resource for European area and Slavic studies specialists and is sure to appeal to people interested in having easy access to information about political, economic, and cultural developments in Ukraine.
GeneralYiddishlandBooksGerard Silvain and Henri Minczeles 
 This unique book is an unforgettable journey into the heart of Yiddishland, a mythical and real land that has never appeared on a map of the world, but whose frontiers have forged rivers, crossed oceans and spanned continents. Although, tragically, it no longer exists, Yiddishland - a huge area that stretched from Poland to the Ukraine, Belorussia, Romania, Bessarabia, Eastern Hungary and the Baltic States - lives on through the telling imagery of the humble postcard.
Gleaned from the millions preserved in attics, trunks and Jewish family archives all over the world, this remarkable collection brings to life the immutable rhythm of the shtetl. The pages are alive with rabbis, professional marriage brokers, itinerant water carriers, bright-eyed yeshivot students, porters, beggars and brilliant intellectuals, plus synagogues, hospitals, cemeteries and those sadly unavoidable scenes of suffering and persecution. The humble trades that kept entire populations from starving to death are shown in minute detail.

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