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Shtetl : A Vernacular Intellectual History /
By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship. He traces the trajectory of writing about these towns, by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, n...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2014]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship. He traces the trajectory of writing about these towns, by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists, and others, to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for "town" emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and Jewish studies |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813562742 |