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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Katz, Steven T., 1944- Shtetl. New York : New York University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)607766289 Online version: Katz, Steven T., 1944- Shtetl. New York : New York University Press, ©2007 (OCoLC)608323190 |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven T Katz |
ISBN: | 0814748015 9780814748015 9780814748312 0814748317 |
OCLC Number: | 70292039 |
Description: | viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Steven T. Katz. |
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Publisher Synopsis
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 Holocaust and beyond. -- Antony Polonsky,Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studiesat the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University [A]nyone looking to really understand the Jewish past, not just the romanticized version of it, will find this book a perfect antidote. * The Reporter * Talk about stereotype busting! Not only are we forced to readjust our sights . . . but in the best moments of Katz's collection we learn how to distinguish what is factually true from what is mythically imagined. Even more importantly, we begin to see . . . the world of the shtetlach that the fog and night of the Holocaust forever destroyed. * New Jersey Jewish News * The quality of the essays is uniformly good, and after reading them, readers will be fully acquainted with the elusive concept of the shtetl. The essays are well documented. * Choice * The book is a must-buy for all libraries. * AJL Newsletter * Read more...

