Out Of The Shtetl
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Out Of The Shtetl
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Author : Nancy Sinkoff
language : en
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Release Date : 2003
Out Of The Shtetl written by Nancy Sinkoff and has been published by Society of Biblical Lit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The Shtetl
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Author : Steven T. Katz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007
The Shtetl written by Steven T. Katz and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it. During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel. This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series.
The Golden Age Shtetl
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Author : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
The Golden Age Shtetl written by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with History categories.
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."
The Death Of The Shtetl
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Author : Yehuda Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Death Of The Shtetl written by Yehuda Bauer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with History categories.
The author recounts the destruction of small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942.
How The Wise Men Got To Chelm
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Author : Ruth von Bernuth
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2016-09-13
How The Wise Men Got To Chelm written by Ruth von Bernuth and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world—one fool per town. But the angel’s bag broke and all the souls spilled out onto the same spot. They built a settlement where they landed: the town is known as Chelm. The collected tales of these fools, or “wise men,” of Chelm constitute the best-known folktale tradition of the Jews of eastern Europe. This tradition includes a sprawling repertoire of stories about the alleged intellectual limitations of the members of this old and important Jewish community. Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century. Since then, however, the town has led a double life—as a real city in eastern Poland and as an imaginary place onto which questions of Jewish identity, community, and history have been projected. By placing literary Chelm and its “foolish” antecedents in a broader historical context, it shows how they have functioned for over three hundred years as models of society, somewhere between utopia and dystopia. These imaginary foolish towns have enabled writers both to entertain and highlight a variety of societal problems, a function that literary Chelm continues to fulfill in Jewish literature to this day.
In The Shadow Of The Shtetl
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Author : Jeffrey Veidlinger
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
In The Shadow Of The Shtetl written by Jeffrey Veidlinger and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.
History Of The Literary Cultures Of East Central Europe
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Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2006-09-13
History Of The Literary Cultures Of East Central Europe written by Marcel Cornis-Pope and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, however inadvertently, the very national borders they play down. This volume inverts the expansive momentum of comparative studies towards ever-broader regional, European, and world literary histories. While the theater of this volume is still the literary culture of East-Central Europe, the contributors focus on pinpointed local traditions and geographic nodal points. Their histories of Riga, Plovdiv, Timişoara or Budapest, of Transylvania or the Danube corridor – to take a few examples – reveal how each of these sites was during the last two-hundred years a home for a variety of foreign or ethnic literary traditions next to the one now dominant within the national borders. By foregrounding such non-national or hybrid traditions, this volume pleads for a diversification and pluralization of local and national histories. A genuine comparatist revival of literary history should involve the recognition that “treading on native grounds” means actually treading on grounds cultivated by diverse people.
The Belarusian Shtetl
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Author : Irina Kopchenova
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-05
The Belarusian Shtetl written by Irina Kopchenova and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with History categories.
For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them, and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities that remain today. Since 2012, under the auspices of the Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, teams of scholars and students from many different disciplines have returned to the sites of former Jewish shtetls in Belarus to reconstruct their past. These researchers have interviewed a wide range of both Jews and non-Jews to find and document traces of Shtetl history, to gain insights into community memories, and to discover surviving markers of identity and ethnic affiliation. In the process, they have also unearthed evidence from old cemeteries and prewar houses and the stories behind memorials erected for Holocaust victims. Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have gathered, The Belarusian Shtetl creates compelling and richly textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each shtetl. Important for scholars and accessible to the public, these portraits set out to return the Jewish shtetls to their rightful places of prominence in the histories and legacies of Belarus.
Diasporic Modernisms
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Author : Allison Schachter
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-11-04
Diasporic Modernisms written by Allison Schachter and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Offering the first comparative literary history of Hebrew and Yiddish modernist prose, Diasporic Modernisms argues that these two literary histories can no longer be separated by nationalist and monolingual histories.
Jews And Other Differences
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Author : Jonathan Boyarin
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Jews And Other Differences written by Jonathan Boyarin and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Social Science categories.