The Golden Age Shtetl : : A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe / / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 50 halftones. 1 map.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction. What’s in a Name? --; Chapter one. Russia Discovers Its Shtetl --; Chapter two. Lawless Freedom --; Chapter three. Fair Trade --; Chapter four. The Right to Drink --; Chapter five. A Violent Dignity --; Chapter six. Crime, Punishment, and a Promise of Justice --; Chapter seven. Family Matters --; Chapter eight. Open House --; Chapter nine. If I Forget Thee --; Chapter ten. The Books of the People --; Conclusion. The End of the Golden Age --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400851164; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400851164?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe.Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the collective memory of the Jewish people today.