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The Golden Age Shtetl - A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe (Paperback)
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The Golden Age Shtetl - A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe (Paperback)
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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 dozens
of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival
material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and
artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new
light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the
collective memory of the Jewish people today.
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