The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

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

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern

431 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe 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 ...

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