The Shtetl : : New Evaluations /

The Shtetl : : New Evaluations / / ed. by Steven T. Katz.

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Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Abramson, Henry,
Band, Arnold J.,
Bartal, Israel,
Bauer, Yehuda,
Dauber, Jeremy,
Etkes, Immanuel,
Hundert, Gershon David,
Kassow, Samuel,
Katz, Steven T.,
Krutikov, Mikhail,
Polen, Nehemia,
Seidman, Naomi,
Wiesel, Elie,
WięcŁawska, Katarzyna,
Zieliński, Konrad,
HerausgeberIn:
Katz, Steven T.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editor’s Note
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East–Central Europe
  • 2 A Shtetl with a Yeshiva The Case of Volozhin
  • 3 Rebbetzins,Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in Hasidism
  • 4 Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • 5 The Shtetl in Poland, 1914–1918
  • 6 The Shtetl in Interwar Poland
  • 7 Looking at the Yiddish Landscape Representation in Nineteenth-Century Hasidic and Maskilic Literature
  • 8 Imagined Geography The Shtetl, Myth, and Re
  • 9 Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
  • 10 Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis
  • 11 Agnon’s Synthetic Shtetl
  • 12 The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish Fiction
  • 13 Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia)
  • 14 The World of the Shtetl
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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