The Jewish dark continent [electronic resource] : life and death in the Russian pale of settlement / Nathaniel Deutsch.
2011
PJ5129.R3 Z58 2011eb
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The Jewish dark continent [electronic resource] : life and death in the Russian pale of settlement / Nathaniel Deutsch.
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9780674047280
9780674062641 electronic book
9780674062641 electronic book
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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English
Description
1 online resource (374 p.) : map.
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PJ5129.R3 Z58 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
947.004924
Summary
The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a revealing questionnaire in Yiddish, translated here in its entirety for the first time.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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An-Ski, S., 1863-1920. Yidishe etṇografishe program. English.
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Table of Contents
Exploring the Jewish Dark Continent
The Rebbe as Ethnographer/The Ethnographer as Rebbe
A Total Account: Writing Down the People's Torah
The Book of Man
Preface to the Annotated Translation
The Jewish Ethnographic Program
Afterword.
The Rebbe as Ethnographer/The Ethnographer as Rebbe
A Total Account: Writing Down the People's Torah
The Book of Man
Preface to the Annotated Translation
The Jewish Ethnographic Program
Afterword.