The Golden Age Shtetl
Author | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780691168517 |
ISBN-13 | : 0691168512 |
Rating | : 4/5 (512 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Golden Age Shtetl written by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."