The Shtetl: New Evaluations (Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies Series)

by StevenKatz (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $35.81

  Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls - Jewish settlements - in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. This volume takes a look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life.

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $105.93

  Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls - Jewish settlements - in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occupation, language, and culture. This volume takes a look at this most important facet of East European Jewish life.