Halberstam-Rubin, Anna
Sholom Aleichem

The Writer as Social Historian.

In the western reaches of the Russian Empire lies the «Pale of Settlement». Trapped in its shtetlach; surrounded by hostility on all sides, are the bulk of Russia's Jews. Drawing on the original stories of the Yiddish humorist Sholom Aleichem, Halberstam-Rubin portrays life in the Pale. She describes not only the various forms of oppression, poverty and degradation of the victims, but also their response - the institutions and defenses they adopted to retain their spirit. By focusing throughout on the impact of events on people, the author supplies the human link so often missing from conventional accounts of history. XII,165 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 39/Peter Lang Verlag 1989) Mängelexemplar