The shtetl
Subtitle: new evaluations
By: edited by Steven T. Katz.
Series: Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780814748015
Subjects: Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions; Jews -- Europe, Central -- Social conditions; Shtetls; Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations; Europe, Central -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Samuel Kassow; title: The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert; title: A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes; title: Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen; title: Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson; title: The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński; title: The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow; title: Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber; title: Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal; title: Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman; title: Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov; title: Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band; title: The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska; title: Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer; title: The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.