Golden age shtetl : a new history of Jewish life in East Europe /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What's in a name?
- Russia discovers its shtetl
- Lawless freedom
- Fair trade
- the right to drink
- A violent dignity
- Crime, punishment, and a promise of justice
- Family matters
- Open house
- If I forget thee
- The books of the people
- The end of the Golden Age.