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26%OFFYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern - The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe - 9780691168517 - V9780691168517
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The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

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Description for The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 50 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DF; 1DV; HBJD; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe. Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
635g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691168517
SKU
V9780691168517
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About Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University.

Reviews for The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 Petrovsky-Shtern ... succeeds in vividly evoking a Jewish world that survived not merely in spite of ... Read more

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