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Book, 2014
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The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misundersttod 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, ranshackle 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.
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