[PDF.63fe] The Shtetl: New Evaluations (Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series)

The Shtetl: New Evaluations (Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series)

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 | #2649060 in Books |  NYU Press |  2009-11-01 |  2009-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.84 x6.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Includes Seldom-Mentioned Facts About Jewish Life in the Shtetl|By Jan Peczkis|This work focuses on the historical, sociological, and literary implications of the shtetl. I focus on a few topics.

The shtetl lacks a precise definition. However, as late as 1939 (the eve of WWII and the soon-thereafter Nazi German-made Holocaust), and notwithstanding trends towards urba| ||“The book is a must-buy for all libraries.”|-AJL Newsletter

|“This important and comprehensive collection provides a fascinating re-evaluation of one of the main locations of Jewish life in Eastern Europe down to the Holoca

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 ...

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