@article{717028, author = {Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, Ĭokhanan,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717028}, title = {The golden age shtetl : a new history of Jewish life in East Europe /}, abstract = {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."}, recid = {717028}, pages = {431 pages :}, }