The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Mar 30, 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780691160740
Description: Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, 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."