The golden age shtetl : a new history of Jewish life in East Europe / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.
2014
DS135.E82 P48 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The golden age shtetl : a new history of Jewish life in East Europe / Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern.
ISBN
9780691160740 hardcover alkaline paper
0691160740 hardcover alkaline paper
0691160740 hardcover alkaline paper
Published
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Language
English
Description
431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
DS135.E82 P48 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
947.0004924
Summary
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."
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Includes bibligraphical references and (pages 361-415) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.