The Golden age Shtetl : : a new History of Jewish Life in East Europe
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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.
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."
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PUBLISHED
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780691160740
0691160740
SUBJECTS
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs.
Shtetls -- Europe, Eastern -- History.
Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations.