Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History Volume 5
(Part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies Series)
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In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post-Holocaust...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813562724
ISBN13:9780813562728
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:178 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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