Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs by Yekhezkel Kotik New Year Or should they defend themselves

Or should they defend themselves

Josef Israëls

Morris-Reich here turns to five twentieth-century cases in which photography and Jewish history intersect: Albert Kahn’s utopian attempt to establish a photographic archive in Paris in order to advance world peace

and Gideon drops out of college to go on a dangerous journey that will put his principles to the test

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Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs by Yekhezkel Kotik New Year Or should they defend themselvesOriginally 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. Although the way of life portrayed in this memoir has disappeared, the historical, cultural, and folkoric material it contains will be of major interest to historians and