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The Shtetl : New Evaluations.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editor's Note, Steven T. Katz; Introduction, Samuel Kassow; 1 The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East-Central Europe, Gershon David Hundert; 2 A Shtetl with a Yeshiva: The Case of Volozhin, Immanuel Etkes; 3 Rebbetzins, Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in Hasidism, Nehemia Polen; 4 Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Henry Abramson; 5 The Shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918, Konrad Zielinski; 6 The Shtetl in Interwar Poland, Samuel Kassow.
- 7 Looking at the Yiddish Landscape: Representation in Nineteenth-Century Hasidic and Maskilic Literature, Jeremy Dauber8 Imagined Geography: The Shtetl, Myth, and Reality, Israel Bartal; 9 Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, Naomi Seidman; 10 Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis, Mikhail Krutikov; 11 Agnon's Synthetic Shtetl, Arnold J. Band; 12 The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish Fiction, Katarzyna Wieclawska.
- 13 Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust: A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia), Yehuda Bauer14 The World of the Shtetl, Elie Wiesel; About the Contributors; Index.