Botchki: When Doomsday was Still TomorrowGeorge Braziller, 2001 - 238 Seiten With the humor and clearsightedness of one who loved the shtetl, but who worked hard to escape from it, Zagier records the rhythms and texture of everyday life in Botchki, a small town northeast of Warsaw, from the early years of the century until 1927. The author glories in the details of growing up and explores every irony, every twist of fate, every historical fact, as history rushed past this shtetl, sometimes affecting it, sometimes just passing it by. Life was ruled by religion, and he recounts his growing rebelliousness against God, who gives his life meaning and yet allows so much suffering. First set down on the eve of World War II, finished fifty years later, and now published for the first time, Botchki is a testament to a vanished world. This important and moving memoir is essential reading for everyone interested in issues of Jewish life, identity, and exile, as seen through the lens of life in an Eastern European shtetl in the early twentieth century. 9 black-and-white illustrations. |
Inhalt
Introducing Two Carters | 8 |
West Rarely Met East | 12 |
The Gods Got Along | 15 |
Botchki Album | 19 |
5 | 24 |
and Grandparents | 28 |
7 | 32 |
Toddlers Troubles | 35 |
The Doctors Were Wrong | 122 |
Sixth Spoon Arrives | 128 |
Cherries | 132 |
Saint Takes Leave | 137 |
Shtoopl Forms a Militia | 142 |
After the Miracle on the Vistula | 146 |
A Mothers Heart Knows | 150 |
The Soul Trappers | 156 |
9 | 39 |
ΙΟ Experiment in Metaphysics | 43 |
Sabbath Was a Bride | 46 |
12 | 52 |
Weekdays in the Synagogue | 57 |
14 | 63 |
15 | 70 |
Summer 1915 | 73 |
17 | 78 |
Law and Order Prussian Version | 83 |
19 | 88 |
The Fire | 92 |
21 | 95 |
Tisha bOv ΙΟΙ | 101 |
23 | 105 |
24 | 111 |
My Brother Was Different | 115 |
Polonia Restituta | 118 |
Eat Days | 161 |
White Bread on Weekdays | 168 |
Chaim the Ape | 174 |
Cold Pogrom | 180 |
Little Wolf Crosses My Path | 184 |
Out of the Frying Pan | 190 |
4I A Goat Named Elijah | 196 |
New Life | 201 |
Rachel Korn | 205 |
Yankls Suicide | 208 |
A Family Learns English | 211 |
Disaster | 216 |
and Deliverance | 221 |
Discover My Father | 225 |
Escape | 228 |
Epilogue by Vega Zagier Roberts | 233 |
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