| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Contents |
Jewish marginal people in premodern Europe -- Blind beggars and orphan recruits : the Russian state, the kahal, and marginal Jews in the early nineteenth century -- "A pile of dust and rubble" : poorhouses, real and imaginary -- The cholera wedding -- A "republic of beggars"? : charity, Jewish backwardness, and the specter of the Jewish idler -- Madness and the mad : from family burden to national affliction -- "We singing Jews, we Jews possessed" : the Jewish outcast as national icon |
| Summary |
"Stepchildren of the Shtetl considers marginal peoples in East European Jewish society and culture--the disabled, mentally ill, and indigent--and how stereotypes and self-perceptions of Jewish marginality have in turn shaped modern Jewish culture, society, and politics"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Jews |
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Poland |
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Russia |
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beggars |
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disability |
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insanity |
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marginals |
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orphans |
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outcasts |
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poverty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Marginality, Social -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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Poor -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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Mentally ill -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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People with disabilities -- Europe, Eastern -- History
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HISTORY / Jewish.
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Jews -- Social conditions
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Marginality, Social
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Mentally ill
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People with disabilities
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Poor
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Eastern Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020004505 |
| ISBN |
9781503613065 |
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1503613062 |
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