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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,
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In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, describes the destruction of small Jewish
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The shtetl is one of the key concepts for our understanding of the Jewish past in Eastern Europe. Although today most Je
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"There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what t
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Until 1939 Poland was the heartland of European Jewry, and the Polish Jewish community was still one of the largest and
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The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life
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Until the 19th century, women were regularly excluded from graduate education. When this convention changed, it was larg
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In this fascinating portrait of Jewish immigrant wage earners, Susan A. Glenn weaves together several strands of social
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Daughter of the Shtetl is an unusual memoir by an uneducated but sharply observant Jewish woman. Through the eyes of Dob
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Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars,
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