Description: Further DetailsTitle: Stepchildren of the ShtetlCondition: NewEAN: 9781503613058ISBN: 9781503613058Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/14/2020Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Natan M. MeirLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939ISBN-10: 1503613054Description: Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe—from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscription of poor orphans during the reign of Nicholas I to the cholera wedding, a magical ritual in which an epidemic was halted by marrying outcasts to each other in the town cemetery—Stepchildren of the Shtetl reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority. Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and CultureGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Stepchildren of the Shtetl
Title: Stepchildren of the Shtetl
EAN: 9781503613058
ISBN: 9781503613058
Release Date: 07/14/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1
ISBN-10: 1503613054
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Stepchildren of the Shtetl : the Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Europe / Eastern, Asia / General, Jewish, Jewish Studies
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.9 in
Item Weight: 19.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Natan M. Meir
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
