| The Shtetl: Image and Reality: Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish Contributor(s): Estraikh, Gennady (Editor), Krutikov, Mikhail (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1900755416 ISBN-13: 9781900755412 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $82.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study |
| Dewey: 307 |
| Series: Studies in Yiddish |
| Physical Information: 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |