LEADER 03944nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910778104903321 005 20230604165907.0 010 $a0-8147-4862-7 010 $a0-8147-9011-9 010 $a1-4356-0730-9 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814790113 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479503 035 $a(EBL)865644 035 $a(OCoLC)779828163 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000377985 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11259970 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000377985 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10351603 035 $a(PQKB)11646514 035 $a(OCoLC)181104773 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10231 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865644 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10189769 035 $a(DE-B1597)548336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790113 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865644 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479503 100 $a20060710d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe shtetl$b[electronic resource] $enew evaluations /$fedited by Steven T. Katz 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 1 $aElie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4831-7 311 $a0-8147-4801-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction / 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 Zielin?ski -- 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 Wiec?awska -- Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer -- The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel. 330 $aDating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls-Jewish settlements-in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nine 410 0$aElie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series. 606 $aJews$zEurope, Eastern$xSocial conditions 606 $aJews$zEurope, Central$xSocial conditions 606 $aShtetls 607 $aEurope, Eastern$xEthnic relations 607 $aEurope, Central$xEthnic relations 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aShtetls. 676 $a305.892/4043709041 700 $aKatz$b Steven T.$f1944-$0153897 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778104903321 996 $aThe shtetl$93842455 997 $aUNINA