Shtetl : the life and death of a small town and the world of Polish Jews
Hoffman, Eva1998
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Shtetl is the Yiddish word for small town. In this book, Eva Hoffmann reconstructs the lost world of East European Jewry up to its final days in WW2, and looks at the success of the shtetl as an experiment in multiculturalism.
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London : Secker & Warburg, 1998.
Collation:
xi, 269p., [8]p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Maps on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-269).
ISBN:
9780436204821 (hbk)0436204827 (hbk)
Dewey class:
943.8'05'089924
Language:
English
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BRN:
72564