The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History Of Jewish Life In East Europe

Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."

• | Author: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691168512
• | ISBN-13: 9780691168517