Golden Age Shtetl A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

Name: Golden Age Shtetl A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
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ISBN: 9780691160740

ISBN-10: 0691160740

ISBN-13: 9780691160740

Edition: 2014

Authors: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

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The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe.Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.76" long x 1.16" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English