Shtetl : : A Vernacular Intellectual History / / Jeffrey Shandler.

In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Key Words in Jewish Studies ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 23 illustrations
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