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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 Religion 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 Shtetl
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Author : Gennady Estraikh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-02
The Shtetl written by Gennady Estraikh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-02 with Social Science categories.
"There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence. Whether idealized or denigrated, evaluated as the site of memory or mined for historical data, scrutinized as a socio-economic phenomenon or explored as the mythopoetics of a rich literature, the shtetl was the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers published in this volume - most of them presented at the second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish organized by the Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (July 1999) - re-examines the structure, organization and function of numerous small market towns that shaped the world of Yiddish. The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchently re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, and offer new insights that are challenging as they are informative."
The Shtetl
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Author : Steven T Katz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2006-12-24
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 2006-12-24 with Religion 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.
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.
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.
The Shtetl Book
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Author : Diane K. Roskies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Shtetl Book written by Diane K. Roskies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Religion categories.
Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.
Stepchildren Of The Shtetl
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Author : Natan M. Meir
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Stepchildren Of The Shtetl written by Natan M. Meir and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with History categories.
Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe—from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscription of poor orphans during the reign of Nicholas I to the cholera wedding, a magical ritual in which an epidemic was halted by marrying outcasts to each other in the town cemetery—Stepchildren of the Shtetl reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority.
The Shtetl
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Author : Antony Polonsky
language : en
Publisher: Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry
Release Date : 2004
The Shtetl written by Antony Polonsky and has been published by Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Historically, many Polish Jews lived in shtetls, villages and small towns, but little of what we know about shtetl life comes from historical research. Topics in this volume include the role of the shtetl in integration, their existence under Russian/USSR and Polish rule, how they changed culturally in the early twentieth century, how they maintained their social relationships, and how they were portrayed in literature. Contributors offer work on correspondence from shtetl residents, the 1936 incidents in Przytyk, and Jewish prisoner labor in Warsaw after the Ghetto uprising.
The Shtetl Book
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Shtetl Book written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Europe, Eastern categories.
Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe.
Inexhaustible Wellspring
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Author : Hészel Klépfisz
language : en
Publisher: Devora Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Inexhaustible Wellspring written by Hészel Klépfisz and has been published by Devora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Modern science, philosophy, thought and reason owe a great debt to the Jewish ghettos that comprised shtetl life in Europe. Contrary to popular belief, the shtetl was not a place where fiddlers on the roof watched the world pass them by. Quite the contrary. The author presents clear, historical data to show that many great minds which grew out of the shtetl refused to shed their Jewishness in order to achieve fame in the world at large. In his cogent analysis, the author reveals the great personalities that blossomed in the cauldron of shtetl life, greats like The Baal Shem Tov, Y I Peretz, Franz Rosenzweig, Januz Korczak, and many others.