Jewish Dark Continent - Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

Informationen zum Autor Nathaniel Deutsch is Professor of Literature and History at University of California! Santa Cruz. Klappentext The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I! a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his team collected jokes! recorded songs! took thousands of photographs! and created a revealing questionnaire in Yiddish! translated here in its entirety for the first time. Zusammenfassung The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I! a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his team collected jokes! recorded songs! took thousands of photographs! and created a revealing questionnaire in Yiddish! translated here in its entirety for the first time.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Deutsch, Deutsch Nathaniel
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2011
• EAN: 9780674047280
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04728-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Sociology & anthropology, USSR, Soviet Union, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities