The Golden Age Shtetl : : A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe / / 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. C...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 50 halftones. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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