The shtetl

Titel: The shtetl : new evaluations / ed. by Steven T. Katz
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Veröffentlicht: New York, NY ˜[u.a.]œ : New York Univ. Press, 2007
Umfang: VIII, 328 S. : graph. Darst. ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series
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Schlagworte:
ISBN: 0814748015 ; 9780814748015
Lokale Klassifikation: 31 3 F ; 32 3 F ; 38 3 F ; 31 13 Ja ; 26 13 Ja ; 26 10 E
  • Editor's Note
  • p. vii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • 1
  • The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East-Central Europe
  • p. 29
  • 2
  • A Shtetl with a Yeshiva: The Case of Volozhin
  • p. 39
  • 3
  • Rebbetzins, Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in Hasidism
  • p. 53
  • 4
  • Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • p. 85
  • 5
  • The Shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918
  • p. 102
  • 6
  • The Shtetl in Interwar Poland
  • p. 121
  • 7
  • Looking at the Yiddish Landscape: Representation in Nineteenth-Century Hasidic and Maskilic Literature
  • p. 140
  • 8
  • Imagined Geography: The Shtetl, Myth, and Reality
  • p. 179
  • 9
  • Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
  • p. 193
  • 10
  • Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis
  • p. 211
  • 11
  • Agnon's Synthetic Shtetl
  • p. 233
  • 12
  • The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish Fiction
  • p. 243
  • 13
  • Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust: A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia)
  • p. 253
  • 14
  • The World of the Shtetl
  • p. 290
  • About the Contributors
  • p. 307
  • Index
  • p. 311