The Shtetl

Image and Reality
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-900755-41-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Studies in Yiddish

There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence. Whether idealized or denigrated, evaluated as the site of memory or mined for historical data, scrutinized as a socio-economic phenomenon or explored as the mythopoetics of a rich literature, the shtetl was the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers published in this volume - most of them presented at the second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish organized by the Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (July 1999) - re-examines the structure, organization and function of numerous small market towns that shaped the world of Yiddish. The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchently re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, and offer new insights that are challenging as they are informative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Estraikh, Gennady

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors, Preface, 1. The Shtetl as Imagined Community, 2. What Exactly Was a Shtetl?, 3. The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon, 4. Jewish Art between yidishkayt and Civilization, 5. Berdichev in Russian Jewish Literary Imagination: From Israel Aksenfeld to Friedrich Gorenshtein, 6. Shtetl Kuzmir: The Reality of the Image, 7. Soviet and Kosher in the Ukrainian Shtetl, 8. The Shtetl Theme in Sovetish heymland, 9. Immigrants Mourning for a World Lost, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Estraikh, Gennady