The Golden Age - Shtetl A New History Of Jewish Life In East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

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.

Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Year:	2014
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9780691160740
Condition:	Good
Description:	Heavy. DJ has mark on front otherwise book is in very good condition.

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SKU: 1602437
Location: Jewish