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Shtetl : a vernacular intellectual history

Title
Shtetl : a vernacular intellectual history / Jeffrey Shandler.
Author
Shandler, Jeffrey
Publication
  • New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
  • ©2014

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TextUse in library JFE 23-1687Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Description
ix, 178 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
Summary
In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." By examining the meaning of shtetl, the author 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.
Series Statement
Key words in Jewish studies ; V
Uniform Title
Key words in Jewish studies ; v. 5.
Subject
  • Shtetls in literature
  • Jews in literature
  • Shtetls
  • Literature
  • Europe, Eastern > In literature
  • Eastern Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-164) and index.
Contents
Talk of the town -- Forsht ayer shtetl! -- Shtetl fabulous.
Call Number
JFE 23-1687
ISBN
  • 9780813562735
  • 0813562732
  • 9780813562728
  • 0813562724
  • 9780813562742 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0813562740 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013013410
OCLC
835951682
Author
Shandler, Jeffrey, author.
Title
Shtetl : a vernacular intellectual history / Jeffrey Shandler.
Publisher
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Key words in Jewish studies ; V
Key words in Jewish studies ; v. 5.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-164) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 23-1687
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