The Golden Age of Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Discount and Marc Chagall

and Marc Chagall

queerness and queer Judaism have been a constant subplot of Jewish history

Chelm did not make its debut in the role of the foolish shtetl par excellence until late in the nineteenth century

Entree to Judaism for Families: Jewish Cooking and Kitchen Conversations with Children gives parents and grandparents the opportunity to spend time with children and give them skills and confidence through cooking

The Golden Age of Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Discount and Marc ChagallThe shtetl was home to two thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience. This book provides the first grassroots social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl. Challenging popular misconceptions of the shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village stricken by poverty and pogroms, Yohanan Petrovsky Shtern argues that,