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The shtetl : new evaluations
- Title
- The shtetl : new evaluations / edited by Steven T. Katz.
- Author
- Katz, Steven T., 1944-
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 328 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Samuel Kassow -- The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert -- A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes -- Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen -- Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson -- The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński -- The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow -- Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber -- Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal -- Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman -- Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov -- Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band -- The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska -- Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer -- The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.
- Call Number
- *PXV 07-657
- ISBN
- 0814748015 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814748015 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814748317 (pbk.)
- 9780814748312 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006022419
- OCLC
- 70292039
- Author
- Katz, Steven T., 1944-
- Title
- The shtetl : new evaluations / edited by Steven T. Katz.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
- Series
- Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *PXV 07-657