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Language: en
Pages: 444
Pages: 444
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-25 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses
Language: en
Pages: 445
Pages: 445
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-30 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long b
Language: en
Pages: 431
Pages: 431
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:
Presents a social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl, arguing that in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish commun
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-09 - Publisher: PublicAffairs
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its c
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-15 - Publisher: Purdue University Press
The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for