The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus, 1625–2000, Albert Kaganovitch (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), 416 pp., paperback 29.95, electronic version available
Albert Kaganovitch has written the definitive biography of Jewish Rechitsa, a typical town on the Dnieper River at the crossroads of Belorussia, Russia, and Ukraine, providing a meticulously researched analysis of the life and death of one “Jewish” mestechko in Eastern Europe. As in many shtetls, Re...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 327-329 |
| Review of: | The long life and swift death of Jewish Rechitsa (Madison, Wis : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) (Patt, Avinoam)
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| Summary: | Albert Kaganovitch has written the definitive biography of Jewish Rechitsa, a typical town on the Dnieper River at the crossroads of Belorussia, Russia, and Ukraine, providing a meticulously researched analysis of the life and death of one “Jewish” mestechko in Eastern Europe. As in many shtetls, Rechitsa's Jewish population grew and developed together with the region as a whole; as one minority among several ethnic groups, Rechitsa's Jews experienced economic development, geographic partition, political revolutions, war, state persecution, the decline of autonomy, and more. Rechitsa counted 134 Jews in 1789 (13.3 percent of the population) and 7,499 Jews in 1917 (59.1 percent). By 1947 the Jewish population stood at 3,800 (18.8 percent), and in 2000 at only 294 (0.4 percent). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcu034 |