- Series
- Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series
Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Katz, Steven T., 1944-
- Published
- New York : New York University Press, [2007]
©2007
- Locale
- Europe, Eastern
Europe, Central
- Contents
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The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert
A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes
Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen
Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson
The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński
The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow
Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber
Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal
Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman
Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov
Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band
The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska
Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer
The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert -- A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes -- Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen -- Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson -- The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieliński -- The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow -- Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber -- Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal -- Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman -- Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov -- Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band -- The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiecławska -- Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer -- The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.
