| Description |
431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibligraphical references and (pages 361-415) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern Univ., 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." |
| Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
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Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs.
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Shtetls -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
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Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations.
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| Added Title |
Shtetl |
| ISBN |
9780691160740 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0691160740 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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