Shpola (Ukrainian: Шпола, Yiddish: שפּאָלע) is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Shpola Raion (district), and is situated at 49°2′N 31°25′E / 49.033°N 31.417°E / 49.033; 31.417. As of 2004 the estimated population is 18,400.

History[link]

In 1847, Shpola’s Jewish population numbered 1,156. By 1897, that number had grown to 5,388 of a total population of 11,933, or about 45%. This level held steady until the Second World War.

In the 1800s Shpola was part of the Zvenigorod district in the Kiev region. With the overthrow of the Czarist regime Shpola became first a part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and then of the USSR.

During World War II, Nazi Germany invaded Ukraine, and the Jewish population of Shpola was destroyed in 1942. Today Jews make up around 0.5% of Shpola’s population.

People[link]

• Reb Aryeh Leib, "der Shpoler zeyde" (Yiddish: "the grandfather of Shpola") (1725-1812) - Hasidic tzaddik
• Ivan Kulik (1897-1937) - a pen name of Izrail (Srul) Idelevich Kulik, Ukrainian poet, short stories writer, and diplomat
• Oleksandr Tkachenko - chairman of Ukrainian parliament
• Itzik Fefer (1900-1952) - Yiddish poet

References[link]

• (Ukrainian) (1972) Icтopiя мicт i ciл Укpaїнcькoї CCP - Черкаськa область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR - Cherkasy Oblast), Kyiv.

v t e Administrative divisions of Cherkasy Oblast Administrative center: Cherkasy Districts Cherkasy Chornobai Chyhyryn Drabiv Horodysche Kamianka Kaniv Katerynopil Khrystynivka Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi Lysianka Mankivka Monastyrysche Shpola Smila Talne Uman Zhashkiv Zolotonosha Zvenyhorodka Cities Major cities Cherkasy Kaniv Smila Uman Vatutine Zolotonosha Other cities Chyhyryn Horodysche Kamianka Khrystynivka Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi Monastyrysche Shpola Talne Zhashkiv Zvenyhorodka List of: urban-type settlements — villages

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Unferth at the National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012, where her book Revolution was an autobiography finalist.

Deb Olin Unferth is an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, both published by McSweeney's, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, published by Henry Holt. Unferth was a finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Revolution.^[1][2]

Career[link]

Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Boston Review, Esquire, and other magazines. She is a frequent contributor to Noon. She also has received two Pushcart Prizes and was chosen by Harper's Baazar as an "Editors' Choice: Names to Know in 2011".^[3] Unferth teaches creative writing at Wesleyan University.^[4] She has been a vegan since 2008.[1].

Books[link]

• Revolution (memoir), 2011
• Vacation (novel), 2008
• Minor Robberies (short stories), 2007

Awards[link]

• National Book Critics Award finalist for Revolution, 2012^[5]
• Pushcart Prize, 2011
• Creative Capital Grant for Innovative Literature, 2009^[6]
• Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation, 2009^[7]
• Pushcart Prize, 2005

Online Texts[link]

Non-Fiction[link]

• Memoir Manifesto
• Where I Write
• Unferth reads from her memoir Revolution on the InDigest podcast

Short Fiction[link]

• Avenue Journal
• La Pena
• Minor Robberies

Interviews[link]

• Interview on The Rumpus
• Interview on HTMLGIANT
• Interview on Bookslut with Tao Lin
• 2011 radio interview (50 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show

References[link]