ebooks Forsaken: The Menstruant in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (HBI Series on Jewish Women) by Sharon Faye Koren in History

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In Shtetl (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.