Shtetl - by Eva Hoffman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of "Lost in Translation" "a daring and generous book" about life in a Polish village under the Nazi occupation ("The Nation")<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Shtetl</em> (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence--still relevant to us today-- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Eva Hoffman</b> was born in Cracow, Poland, and emigrated to Canada at the age of thirteen. She is the author of three highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, <i>Lost in Translation, Exit into History</i>, and <i>Shtetl</i>, and one novel, <i>The Secret</i>. She divides her time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a visiting professor at MIT.
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