The destruction of Dubova : chronicle of a dead city / by Rokhl Faygnberg ; translated by Albert Madansky and Cynthia Madansky ; translation edited by Yankl Salant ; volume edited by Elissa Bemporad.
| Author/creator | Faygnberg, Rokhl author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xii, 171 pages : illustrations, portraits, map, facsimiles (black and white) ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bemporad, Elissa, editor, writer of introduction. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqvHkVRbVymWfjh9dvm3P https://isni.org/isni/0000000072619276 |
| Other author/creator | Madansky, Cynthia, translator, writer of afterword. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhMpMhtCdbQmqpJQgXw4q |
| Other author/creator | Madansky, Albert, 1934-2022, translator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBg6fRkwT3yhg9Jcb88JC |
| Other author/creator | Salant, Yankl, editor. |
| Series | Yiddish voices |
| Contents | Introduction: The Story of a Text, the Voice of a Writer, the Fate of a City / Elissa Bemporad -- Text: Chronicle of a Dead City: The Destruction of Dubova / Rokhl Faygnberg (translated by Albert Madansky and Cynthia Madansky ; translation edited by Yankl Salant) -- Afterword / Cynthia Madansky |
| Abstract | "Written by Yiddish writer Rokhl Faygnberg, The Destruction of the Dubova Shtetl is a powerful account of the elimination of the Jewish community of one shtetl during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921. Based on her personal interviews with survivors, Faygnberg presents a detailed description of the evisceration of the vibrant Jewish community of Dubova, which, after enduring torture, killings, and destruction-was ultimately wiped off the map of Ukraine. In this unique memorial book, translated into English here for the first time, Faygnberg chronicles the demise of a typical shtetl, which like so many others at the time, was caught up in the genocidal violence of the civil war, a period that is largely forgotten, overshadowed by the Holocaust that took place in these same lands some twenty years later. The biographical details of the Jewish community members of Dubova provide a moving portrait of the familiar and neighborly relations, as well as of the pettiness of everyday life on the eve of destruction, made of conflict, class tension, and intermarriage. Faygnberg's narrative also captures the extreme violence of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, by dwelling on the perpetrators' actions and motivations, and on the intimacy of genocide made of neighbors killing neighbors, and by bringing to life the Jewish community's desperate attempts to resist and survive the brutality"--Page 4 of cover. |
| General note | Translated from the Yiddish. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781350517127 |
| Genre/form | Translations |
| ISBN | 9781350517097 |
| ISBN | 9781350517103 hardback |
| ISBN | 1350517100 hardback |
| ISBN | 1350517097 paperback |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
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