Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik

by David Assaf and Yekhezkel Kotik

The first annotated English edition of a classic early-twentieth-century Yiddish memoir that vividly describes Jewish life in a small Eastern European town.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334210
• ISBN13: 9780814334218
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"