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192 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
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In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of "shtetl," Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in ...
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192 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)
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In Yiddish, shtetl simply means "town." How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of "shtetl," Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in ...
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