1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996218672303316

Titolo

The turn to biographical methods in social science : comparative issues and examples / / edited by Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, and Tom Wengraf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-58537-3

1-280-40377-2

0-203-46604-7

1-134-58538-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Social research today

Altri autori (Persone)

ChamberlaynePrue

BornatJoanna

WengrafTom

Disciplina

300.72

300/.7/2

Soggetti

Social sciences - Biographical methods

Social sciences - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the biographical turn; Issues of methodology and theory; Reflections on the biographical turn in social science; Biographical analysis: a 'German' school?; Case histories of families and social processes: enriching sociology; The vanishing point of resemblance: comparative welfare as philosophical anthropology; Biographical work and biographical structuring in present-day societies; Clinical hermeneutics: from the ontology of self to a case example

Uncovering the general from within the particular: from contingencies to typologies in the understanding of casesExamples of biographical methods in use; Biography, anxiety and the experience of locality; Texts in a changing context: reconstructing lives in East Germany; Situated selves, the coming-out genre and equivalent citizenship in narratives of HIV; Extreme right attitudes in the biographies of West



German youth; The metamorphosis of habitus among East Germans; R

Sommario/riassunto

Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778104903321

Autore

Katz Steven T. <1944->

Titolo

The shtetl [[electronic resource] ] : new evaluations / / edited by Steven T. Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-4862-7

0-8147-9011-9

1-4356-0730-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series

Disciplina

305.892/4043709041

Soggetti

Jews - Europe, Eastern - Social conditions

Jews - Europe, Central - Social conditions

Shtetls

Europe, Eastern Ethnic relations

Europe, Central Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 nine