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Pages: 549
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Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-09 - Publisher: Public Affairs
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its c
Language: en
Pages: 454
Pages: 454
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
The story of the former Polish-Jewish community (shtetl) of Luboml, Wołyń, Poland. Its Jewish population of some 4,000, dating back to the 14th century, was e
Language: en
Pages: 445
Pages: 445
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-30 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long b
Language: en
Pages: 376
Pages: 376
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
The five short novellas which comprise this anthology were written between 1890 and World War I. All share a common setting--the Eastern European Jewish town or