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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Katz, Steven T., 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series.
Temas:
Jews > Europe, Eastern > Social conditions.
Jews > Europe, Central > Social conditions.
Shtetls.
Juifs > Europe de l'Est > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations
Jews > Social conditions
Shtetls
Juden
Stetl
Schtetl.
Joden.
Europe, Eastern > Ethnic relations.
Europe, Central > Ethnic relations.
Europe de l'Est > Relations interethniques.
Europe centrale > Relations interethniques.
Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Osteuropa
Oost-Europa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Samuel Kassow
  • The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert
  • A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes
  • Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen
  • Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson
  • The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński
  • The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow
  • Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber
  • Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal
  • Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman
  • Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov
  • Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band
  • The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska
  • Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer
  • The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.

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