Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Note vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East–Central Europe 29
6. 2 A Shtetl with a Yeshiva The Case of Volozhin 39
7. 3 Rebbetzins,Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in Hasidism 53
8. 4 Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 85
9. 5 The Shtetl in Poland, 1914–1918 102
10. 6 The Shtetl in Interwar Poland 121
11. 7 Looking at the Yiddish Landscape Representation in Nineteenth-Century Hasidic and Maskilic Literature 140
12. 8 Imagined Geography The Shtetl, Myth, and Re 179
13. 9 Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature 193
14. 10 Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis 211
15. 11 Agnon’s Synthetic Shtetl 233
16. 12 The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish Fiction 243
17. 13 Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) 253
18. 14 The World of the Shtetl 290
19. About the Contributors 307
20. Index 311