{"product_id":"the-belarusian-shtetl-history-and-memory-9780253067319","title":"The Belarusian Shtetl: History and Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. \u003ci\u003eThe Belarusian Shtetl\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 2012, under the auspices of the Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, teams of scholars and students from many different disciplines have returned to the sites of former Jewish shtetls in Belarus to reconstruct their past. These researchers have interviewed a wide range of both Jews and non-Jews to find and document traces of Shtetl history, to gain insights into community memories, and to discover surviving markers of identity and ethnic affiliation. In the process, they have also unearthed evidence from old cemeteries and prewar houses and the stories behind memorials erected for Holocaust victims. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, \u003ci\u003eThe Belarusian Shtetl\u003c\/i\u003e creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl. Important for scholars and accessible to the public, these portraits set out to return the Jewish shtetls to their rightful places of prominence in the histories and legacies of Belarus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrina Kopchenova is Educational Programs Coordinator at the SEFER Center, Moscow, and Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Slavic Studies in the Russian Academy of Science. She is editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Shtetl of Hlybokaye in Contemporary Cultural Memory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJews on the Map of Lithuania: The Case of Birzai\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eMikhail Krutikov is author of four books and co-editor of ten collected volumes on various aspects of Yiddish culture. He is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390836085010,"sku":"9780253067319","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a2fb1d77-f8d8-483e-b71a-2542c2a50b7f.jpg?v=1728957384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-belarusian-shtetl-history-and-memory-9780253067319","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}