The shtetl
Titel: | The shtetl : new evaluations / ed. by Steven T. Katz |
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Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY [u.a.] : 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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ISBN: | 0814748015 ; 9780814748015 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis |
- 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