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1 online resource (429 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text; Introduction; PART I: FAMILY AND GENDER; 1. The Social Implications of Very Early Marriage; 2. Love and Family; 3. Remarriage among Jews and Christians; 4. Scientific Welfare and Lonely Old People: The Development of Old-Age Homes; 5. The Pushke and its Development; 6. Was the Traditional East European Jewish Family in the Recent Past Patriarchal?; PART II: EDUCATION; 7. (omitted)eder Study, Knowledge of Torah, and the Maintenance of Social Stratification |
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8. Gender Differentiation and the Education of Jewish Women9. Literacy among Jews in Eastern Europe in the Modern Period; 10. Dormitory and Yeshiva in Eastern Europe; 11. Is the Question the Answer? The Context and Consequences of an Educational Pattern; 12. Hasidic Yeshivas in Interwar Poland; PART III: THE RABBINATE; 13. The Missing Rabbis of Eastern Europe; 14. The Inheritance of the Rabbinate in Eastern Europe; 15. The Making and Maintenance of the Image of the Gaon of Vilna; 16. The Controversy over She(omitted)itah and the Struggle between Hasidim and Mitnagedim |
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Gazetteer of Place Names in Central and Eastern EuropeBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Viewing the Jewish history of eastern Europe through the prism of the lives of ordinary people produces findings that are sometimes surprising but always stimulating |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs
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Jews -- Social conditions.
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Jews -- Social life and customs.
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Eastern Europe.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781909821149 |
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1909821144 |
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