The Golden Age of Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Discount Orlean introduces us to an

Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy

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The Golden Age of Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Discount Orlean introduces us to anThe 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,