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A review by kleonard
The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
5.0
What if a small Jewish community in Eastern Europe was passed over by the Nazis and the following regimes, completely separated from the rest of the world? What would happen if the modern world "discovered" it, and its people discovered the modern world? The Lost Shtetl poses these questions as a meditation on assimilation, colonization, and community. Focusing on a few characters and told in a first-person plural voice, the book is a triumph of imagination that engages in narratives of hope, tragedy, identity, and autonomy. A great read for book clubs and community reads.
Perhaps because this was an eARC, the asterisks that should have linked to definitions of terms weren't working. For print copies, it would disturb the reading flow less if the terms were footnoted at the bottom of pages, rather than set as endnotes that would require a read to flip back and forth in the book.
Perhaps because this was an eARC, the asterisks that should have linked to definitions of terms weren't working. For print copies, it would disturb the reading flow less if the terms were footnoted at the bottom of pages, rather than set as endnotes that would require a read to flip back and forth in the book.