The Shtetl - Image and Reality (Paperback)

There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence. Whether idealized or denigrated, evaluated as the site of memory or mined for historical data, scrutinized as a socio-economic phenomenon or explored as the mythopoetics of a rich literature, the shtetl was the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers published in this volume - most of them presented at the second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish organized by the Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (July 1999) - re-examines the structure, organization and function of numerous small market towns that shaped the world of Yiddish. The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchently re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, and offer new insights that are challenging as they are informative.

General

Imprint:	Legenda
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Gennady Estraikh
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-900755-41-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
LSN:	1-900755-41-6
Barcode:	9781900755412

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