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] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Key Words in Jewish Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 23 illustrations |
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