As It Happened Yesterday
Cohen, Yosl
Yosl's childhood in Krynki wasn't idyllic. His family endured bitter poverty and forced and loveless marriages, his father was often absent.In this memoir of his childhood, Yosl describes everyday life in the shtetl, its inhabitants and their idiosyncrasies. Young, impressionable and headstrong, Yosl witnessed pivotal events within Judaism and the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century. His first-hand accounts of the rise of the anti-ts...