{"product_id":"shtetl-jeffrey-shandler-9780813562728","title":"Shtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History Volume 5","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Yiddish, shtetl simply means \"town.\" How does such an unassuming word come to loom so large in modern Jewish culture, with a proliferation of uses and connotations? By examining the meaning of \u003ci\u003eshtetl\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeffrey Shandler asks how Jewish life in provincial towns in Eastern Europe has become the subject of extensive creativity, memory, and scholarship from the early modern era in European history to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the post-Holocaust era, the shtetl looms large in public culture as the epitome of a bygone traditional Jewish communal life. People now encounter the Jewish history of these towns through an array of cultural practices, including fiction, documentary photography, film, memoirs, art, heritage tourism, and political activism. At the same time, the shtetl attracts growing scholarly interest, as historians, social scientists, literary critics, and others seek to understand both the complex reality of life in provincial towns and the nature of its wide-ranging remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShtetl: A Vernacular Intellectual History\u003c\/i\u003e 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 studies. Shandler proposes that the intellectual history of the shtetl is best approached as an exemplar of engaging Jewish vernacularity, and that the variable nature of this engagement, far from being a drawback, is central to the subject's enduring interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Shandler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813562724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813562728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Jeffrey Shandler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096748663039,"sku":"9780813562728","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shtetl-jeffrey-shandler-9780813562728","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}