The Golden Age Shtetl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Age Shtetl write by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. This book was released on 2015-08-25. The Golden Age Shtetl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
The Golden Age Shtetl
The Golden Age Shtetl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Age Shtetl write by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern. This book was released on 2014-03-30. The Golden Age Shtetl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern argues that, in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as vibrant as any in Europe. Petrovsky-Shtern brings this golden age to life, looking at dozens of shtetls and drawing on a wealth of never-before-used archival material. Illustrated throughout with rare archival photographs and artwork, this nuanced history casts the shtetl in an altogether new light, revealing how its golden age continues to shape the collective memory of the Jewish people today.
The Golden Age Shtetl
The Golden Age Shtetl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Golden Age Shtetl write by Ĭokhanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern. This book was released on 2014. The Golden Age Shtetl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl, arguing that in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community.
Shtetl
Shtetl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shtetl write by Eva Hoffman. This book was released on 2007-10-09. Shtetl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence--still relevant to us today-- attempted in the eight centuries of Polish-Jewish history, and describes the forces which influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray their Jewish neighbors in the dark period of the Holocaust.
From Shtetl to Stardom
From Shtetl to Stardom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Shtetl to Stardom write by Michael Renov. This book was released on 2016-12-15. From Shtetl to Stardom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex material. Exploring the subject from a scholarly perspective as well as up close and personal, the book combines historical and theoretical analysis by leading academics in the field with inside information from prominent entertainment professionals. Essays range from Vincent Brook’s survey of the stubbornly persistent canard of Jewish industry "control" to Lawrence Baron and Joel Rosenberg’s panel presentations on the recent brouhaha over Ben Urwand’s book alleging collaboration between Hollywood and Hitler. Case studies by Howard Rodman and Joshua Louis Moss examine a key Coen brothers film, A Serious Man (Rodman), and Jill Soloway’s groundbreaking television series, Transparent (Moss). Jeffrey Shandler and Shaina Hamermann train their respective lenses on popular satirical comedians of yesteryear (Allan Sherman) and those currently all the rage (Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, and Sarah Silverman). David Isaacs relates his years of agony and hilarity in the television comedy writers’ room, and interviews include in-depth discussions by Ross Melnick with Laemmle Theatres owner Greg Laemmle (relative of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle) and by Michael Renov with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. In all, From Shtetl to Stardom offers a uniquely multifaceted, multimediated, and up-to-the-minute account of the remarkable role Jews have played in American movie and TV culture.
