Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History by Jeffrey Shandler New Year children and the elderly

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Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History by Jeffrey Shandler New Year children and the elderlyIn Yiddish, shtetl simply means town. How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present. In the post Holocaust era, the shtetl looms