Stepchildren of the shtetl : the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 /
Natan M. Meir.
Bok Engelsk 2020
| Omfang | xiv, 343 pages : : illustrations ;
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| Opplysninger | Jewish marginal people in premodern Europe -- Blind beggars and orphan recruits: the Russian State, the Kahal, and Marginal Jews in the early Nineteenth Century -- "A pile of dust and rubble": poorhouses, real and imaginary -- The Cholera wedding -- A "republic of beggars"? : charity, Jewish backwardness, and the specter of the Jewish Idler -- Madness and the mad: from family burden to national affliction -- "We singing Jews, we Jews possessed": the Jewish outcast as national icon.. - "Stepchildren of the Shtetl considers marginal peoples in East European Jewish society and culture--the disabled, mentally ill, and indigent--and how stereotypes and self-perceptions of Jewish marginality have in turn shaped modern Jewish culture, society, and politics"--
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| ISBN | 9781503611832. - 9781503613058
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