The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe

by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

Book Overview

A major history of the shtetl's golden age

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691168512
• ISBN13: 9780691168517
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"