shochet – Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad

Reviewing a unique memoir, The Shochet, in Tablet

The Shochet, (Touro U. Press, 2023-2025), is a rare, complex, and important document of life in the Pale of Settlement in the late 19th – early 20th century. I came across the book by accident and felt a particular affinity for it when it mentioned the shtetl near the Ukrainian / Bessarabian border where my grandparents wereContinue reading “Reviewing a unique memoir, The Shochet, in Tablet”