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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shandler, Jeffrey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Talk of the Town; Phenomenon; Concept; 2. Forsht ayer shtetl!; Early Writings; Activist Scholarship; Looking Forward, Looking Back; Postwar Collecting and Recollecting; Shtetl Studies Comes of Age; 3. Shtetl Fabulous; Image; Place; Fantasy; Notes; Index.