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aleichem
Alla Sokolova
Anna Shternshis
architectural heritage towns
Author_Gennady Estraikh
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communal identity formation
Contemporary Yiddish Literature
Dafna Clifford
dan
David G. Roskies
Dense
Der Nister
diaspora studies
Eastern European Jewry
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Gabled Roof
heymland
Hillel Kazovsky
jewish
Jewish Artists
Jewish cultural history
Jewish Shtetl
John D. Klier
life
literature
Lublin Province
Made Fun
memory studies in Jewish communities
Mendele Moykher Sforim
Mikhail Krutikov
miron
Moises Kijak
Polish Shtetl
Post-war
Russian Orthodox Church
sholem
Sholem Aleichem
Shtetl Life
Small Jewish Town
socio-economic analysis
sovetish
Sovetish Heymland
Soviet Yiddish
Soviet Yiddish Literature
Soviet Yiddish Writers
Synagogue Buildings
Violating
Wooden Synagogues
yiddish
Yiddish Literature
Yiddish Writers
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755412
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Aug 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers published in this volume - most of them presented at the second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish organized by the Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (July 1999) - re-examines the structure, organization and function of numerous small market towns that shaped the world of Yiddish. The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchently re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, and offer new insights that are challenging as they are informative.
