Title: The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
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."
Subjects: Social life and customs, Shtetls, Jews, Ethnic relations, History, Jews, europe, Jews, history, 1789-, Jews, social life and customs, New York Times reviewed, Villages