By Yekhezkel Kotik
ISBN-10: 0814328040
ISBN-13: 9780814328040
Originally released in Warsaw in 1913, this superbly written memoir bargains a wide ranging description of the author's studies becoming up in Kamieniec Litewski, a Polish shtetl hooked up with many very important occasions within the heritage of nineteenth-century japanese ecu Jewry. even though the way of living portrayed during this memoir has disappeared, the old, cultural, and folkoric fabric it includes should be of significant curiosity to historians and normal readers alike.
Kotik's tale is the saga of a prosperous and influential kin via 4 generations. Masterfully interwoven during this story are colourful vignettes that includes Kotik's relatives and friends, together with rabbis and zaddikim, retailers and the negative, hasidim and mitnaggedim, students and illiterates, believers and heretics, matchmakers and informers, and lecturers and musicians. tales of private heat and melancholy intermingle with descriptions of the increase and decline of Jewish communal associations and outlines or the relationships among Jews, Russian gurus, and varnish lords. Such occasions because the brutal decrees of Tsar Nicholas I, the abolishment of the Jewish communal board often called the Kahal, and the Polish revolts opposed to Russia are mirrored within the lives of those people.
The English version encompasses a whole translation of the 1st quantity of memoirs and includes notes elucidating phrases, names, and customs, in addition to bibliographical references to the study literature. The e-book not just acquaints new readers with the expertise of a special storyteller but in addition provides an incredible rfile of Jewish existence in the course of a desirable era.
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He began writing in winter 1911–12 and completed his work some three to four months later. “I am now hard at work on part two . . which will present a picture of a true Diaspora Jew . . ” In the continuation he noted that he intended to devote the third part to “Warsaw and its public workers. That must be as it represents my ‘bag,’ my specialty, as I founded nearly all the welfare societies operating in Warsaw. ” Kotik ended his reply with an entreaty to the admired writer: “Another letter from you is what I desire.
He munificently negated the idea (“too far and too expensive”), adding, “this is a bad day for me! But do not be troubled. ” 67 The next postcards from Berne (8–11 February) fluctuated between pessimism (“I was certain that yesterday was the end . ”). ” 68 Sholem Aleichem’s doctors finally concluded that an operation was not necessary and ordered him to travel to the Italian resort town of Nervi, near Genoa. From his stop in Vienna, he sent Kotik two optimistic postcards (1–2 March). The next day, 3 March, he sent another postcard, this time “from the most beautiful city in the world”—Venice.
82 Meanwhile, the second part of Kotik’s memoirs appeared. On 30 November 1913 Kotik sent Sholem Aleichem a copy of the book. ” Anxious to hear Sholem Aleichem’s opinion of the second part, he pressed him to “please take a look at the book, and grace me with a letter. ” 83 Kotik awaited his pen pal’s evaluation impatiently. On 2 January 1914 Sholem Aleichem sent his reply, this time from Paris. Sholem Aleichem, as we are aware, disliked the second part, but evidently sought a way to break the news gently, without hurting Kotik’s feelings.
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