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- Book Title
- The Shtetl: New Evaluations
- Publication Date
- 2006-12-24
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780814748015
- Subject Area
- Religion, History
- Publication Name
- Shtetl : New Evaluations
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Judaism / History, Jewish
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Series
- Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814748015
ISBN-13
9780814748015
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54031458
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Shtetl : New Evaluations
Subject
Judaism / History, Jewish
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, History
Series
Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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Reviews
[A]nyone looking to really understand the Jewish past, not just the romanticized version of it, will find this book a perfect antidote., ( "These studies are very enlightening about the process of secularization and the decline of religion as depicted and understood by a variety of observers." )-(Shaul Stampfer),(Hebrew University), The contributors help lift the veil of nostalgia that has long obscured the history of small town East European Jewish life. They contest the literary conception of the hermetically sealed, monolithic shtetl, and describe a more integrated and varied Jewish-Christian (and Jewish-Jewish) dynamic that seems much more true to life. This collection constitutes an important step beyond the older, diachronic understanding of Jewish history., "The strength of The Women and War Reader lies in its both interdisciplinary and geographically diverse approach. It confronts the devastating impact of wartime violence and militarized societies on women." - Iris, "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 editors. . . whose work also appears, have presented us with a valuable resource for years to come." - Peace News, "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, "Talk about stereotype busting! Not only are we forced to readjust our sights . . . but in the best moments of Katz'e(tm)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 book is a must-buy for all libraries."-- AJL Newsletter "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 "[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 "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 Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University"The contributors help lift the veil of nostalgia that has long obscured the history of small town East European Jewish life. They contest the literary conception of the hermetically sealed, monolithic shtetl, and describe a more integrated and varied Jewish-Christian (and Jewish-Jewish) dynamic that seems much more true to life. This collection constitutes an important step beyond the older, diachronic understanding of Jewish history."--Glenn Dynner, author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, 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., These studies are very enlightening about the process of secularization and the decline of religion as depicted and understood by a variety of observers., "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 ,, "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 Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University, "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, "[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 ,, ( "The contributors help lift the veil of nostalgia that has long obscured the history of small town East European Jewish life. They contest the literary conception of the hermetically sealed, monolithic shtetl, and describe a more integrated and varied Jewish-Christian (and Jewish-Jewish) dynamic that seems much more true to life. This collection constitutes an important step beyond the older, diachronic understanding of Jewish history." )-(Glenn Dynner),(author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society ), "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, "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 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 ,, 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., "The book is a must-buy for all libraries."-AJL Newsletter"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"[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 "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 Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University"The contributors help lift the veil of nostalgia that has long obscured the history of small town East European Jewish life. They contest the literary conception of the hermetically sealed, monolithic shtetl, and describe a more integrated and varied Jewish-Christian (and Jewish-Jewish) dynamic that seems much more true to life. This collection constitutes an important step beyond the older, diachronic understanding of Jewish history."-Glenn Dynner, author of Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society, "[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, 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.
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
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Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
305.892/4043709041
Table Of Content
Editor's NoteSteven T. KatzIntroduction Samuel Kassow1 The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East-Central EuropeGershon David Hundert2 A Shtetl with a Yeshiva: The Case of Volozhin Immanuel Etkes3 Rebbetzins, Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in HasidismNehemia Polen4 Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyHenry Abramson5 The Shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 Konrad Zieli'nski6 The Shtetl in Interwar Poland Samuel Kassow7 Looking at the Yiddish Landscape: Representation in Nineteenth-Century Hasidic and Maskilic LiteratureJeremy Dauber8 Imagined Geography: The Shtetl, Myth, and Reality Israel Bartal9 Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish LiteratureNaomi Seidman10 Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik KipnisMikhail Krutikov11 Agnon's Synthetic ShtetlArnold J. Band12 The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish FictionKatarzyna Wi?ecl"awska13 Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust: A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia)Yehuda Bauer14 The World of the Shtetl Elie WieselAbout the Contributors Index
Synopsis
Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls--Jewish settlements--in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it.During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. The contributors are senior scholars, including Israel Bartal, Yehuda Bauer, Gershon Hundert, and Elie Wiesel.Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series, View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction."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 Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Brandeis University"The contributors help lift the veil of nostalgia that has long obscured the history of small town East European Jewish life. They contest the literary conception of the hermetically sealed, monolithic shtetl, and describe a more integrated and varied Jewish-Christian (and Jewish-Jewish) dynamic that seems much more true to life. This collection constitutes an important step beyond the older, diachronic understanding of Jewish history." -- Glenn Dynner, author of "Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society"Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls-- Jewish settlements-- in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it.During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel.This is the first book published in the "Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series,", Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls--Jewish settlements--in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it. During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel. This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series ., Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls-Jewish settlements-in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. The shtetls were different in important respects from previous types of Jewish settlements in the Diaspora in that Jews had rarely formed a majority in the towns in which they lived. This was not true of the shtetl, where Jews sometimes comprised 80% or more of the population. While the shtetl began to decline during the course of the nineteenth century, it was the Holocaust which finally destroyed it. During the last thirty years the shtetl has attracted a growing amount of scholarly attention, though gross generalizations and romanticized nostalgia continue to affect how the topic is treated. This volume takes a new look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life. It helps to correct the notion that the shtetl was an entirely Jewish world and shows the ways in which the Jews of the shtetl interacted both with their co-religionists and with their gentile neighbors. The volume includes chapters on the history of the shtetl, its myths and realities, politics, gender dynamics, how the shtetl has been (mis)represented in literature, and the changes brought about by World War I and the Holocaust, among others. Contributors: Samuel Kassow, Gershon David Hundert, Immanuel Etkes, Nehemia Polen, Henry Abramson, Konrad Zielinski, Jeremy Dauber, Israel Bartel, Naomi Seidman, Mikhail Krutikov, Arnold J. Band, Katarzyna Wieclawska, Yehunda Bauer, and Elie Wiesel. This is the first book published in the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series., Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls - Jewish settlements - in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. This volume takes a look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life.
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DS135.E8K38 2006
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