Anna's Shtetl by Lawrence A. Coben Yiddish Learning and floating lovers

and floating lovers

Set between events depicted in Fiddler on the Roof and Schindler’s List

as well as anyone interested in the Jewish American and immigrant experience more generally

Decades ago in Brooklyn

associates

Anna's Shtetl by Lawrence A. Coben Yiddish Learning and floating loversAnna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Annas father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna