Shtetl - A Vernacular Intellectual History

By examining the meaning of shtetl, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship. He traces the trajectory of writing about these towns, by Jews and non-Jews, residents and visitors, researchers, novelists, memoirists, journalists, and others, to demonstrate how the Yiddish word for “town” emerged as a key word in Jewish culture and Jewish studies. 

About the author

 
JEFFREY SHANDLER is a professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust; Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture; and Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America.
 

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Shandler
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2014
• EAN: 9780813562735
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6273-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Key Words in Jewish Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies