192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence. Whether idealized or denigrated, evaluated as the site of memory or mined for historical data, scrutinized as a socio-economic phenomenon or explored as the mythopoetics of a rich literature, the shtetl was the... Read more
Contributors, Preface, 1. The Shtetl as Imagined Community, 2. What Exactly Was a Shtetl?, 3. The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon, 4. Jewish Art between yidishkayt and Civilization, 5. Berdichev in Russian Jewish Literary Imagination: From Israel Aksenfeld to Friedrich Gorenshtein, 6. Shtetl Kuzmir: The Reality of the Image, 7. Soviet and Kosher in the Ukrainian Shtetl, 8. The Shtetl Theme in Sovetish heymland, 9. Immigrants Mourning for a World Lost, Index
Biography
Estraikh, Gennady
