num_pages: 500
description: The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research. This volume redresses that imbalance, with leading experts investigating the social and economic history of the shtetl as well as the way in which shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature.
language: English
title: Polin, Volume Seventeen - The Shtetl: Myth and Reality
titlecomplete: Polin, Volume Seventeen - The Shtetl: Myth and Reality (Studies in Polish Jewry)
ratings_count: 2
series: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 
publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press