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Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History (Key Words in Jewish Studies)
Shtetl A Vernacular Intellectual History - Key Words in Jewish Studies
Author: Jeffrey Shandler
In Yiddish, shtetl simply means ?town.? How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholar...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813562735
ISBN-10: 0813562732
Publication Date: 1/15/2014
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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