Journey to a Nineteenth Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik / Wayne State University Press ( WSUP ) / with The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology ( 19th C.)

By: Assaf, David (editor); Yekhezkel Kotik / Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology

Price: $38.21

Publisher: Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press ( WSUP ) / with The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2002, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2002

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Not Signed

Seller ID: 163527

ISBN: 0814334210

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

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----------softcover, about 6w x 9h inches, a Near Fine example, 540 pages, some b&w photographs, ---"Originally published in Warsaw in 1913, this beautifully written memoir offers a panoramic description of the author’s experiences growing up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl connected with many important events in the history of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewry. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and general readers alike. --Kotik’s story i... View more info