The shtetl : new evaluations / edited by Steven T. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Steven T., 1944-

Series:

Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series.

Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Jews.

Jews--Europe, Central--Social conditions.

Shtetls.

Europe, Eastern--Ethnic relations.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Central--Ethnic relations.

Europe, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls-Jewish settlements-in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nine

Contents:

Introduction / Samuel Kassow

The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert

A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes

Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen

Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson

The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński

The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow

Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber

Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal

Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman

Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov

Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band

The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska

Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer

The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814748626

0814748627

9780814790113

0814790119

9781435607309

1435607309

OCLC:

779828163