The Golden Age Shtetl
Download or Read eBook The Golden Age Shtetl PDF 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.
| Author | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2015-08-25 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780691168517 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0691168512 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Golden Age Shtetl by : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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."
