The Shtetl
Image and Reality
Papers of the Second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish

Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov

Studies In Yiddish 2

Legenda

1 July 2000  •  190pp

ISBN: 978-1-900755-41-2 (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

ContemporaryYiddishArtHistory


The world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, cannot be entered without knowledge of the shtetl -- the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers in this volume, most of them presented at the second Mendel Friedman International Yiddish Conference organized by the University of Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (July 1999), re-examine the structure, organization and function of the numerous small market towns that shaped the Yiddish-speaking world. The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchantly re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, offering new insights that are as challenging as they are informative.

Contents:

1-3
Preface
Gennady Estraikh, Mikhail Krutikov
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4-22
The Shtetl as Imagined Community
David G. Roskies
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23-35
What Exactly Was a Shtetl?
John D. Klier
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36-79
The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon
Alla Sokolova
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80-90
Jewish Art between yidishkayt and Civilization
Hillel Kazovsky
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91-114
Berdichev in Russian Jewish Literary Imagination: From Israel Aksenfeld to Friedrich Gorenshtein
Mikhail Krutikov
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115-132
Shtetl Kuzmir: The Reality of the Image
Dafna Clifford
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133-151
Soviet and Kosher in the Ukrainian Shtetl
Anna Shternshis
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152-168
The Shtetl Theme in Sovetish heymland
Gennady Estraikh
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169-179
Immigrants Mourning for a World Lost
Moisés Kijak
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Estraikh, Gennady, and Mikhail Krutikov (eds), The Shtetl: Image and Reality, Studies In Yiddish, 2 (Legenda, 2000)

First footnote reference: 35 The Shtetl: Image and Reality, ed. by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, Studies In Yiddish, 2 (Legenda, 2000), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Estraikh and Krutikov, p. 47.

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Estraikh, Gennady, and Mikhail Krutikov (eds). 2000. The Shtetl: Image and Reality, Studies In Yiddish, 2 (Legenda)

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