Natan M Meir

Stepchildren of the Shtetl

The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9781503611832
• ISBN-10: 1503611833
• Artikelnr.: 57171805

Autorenporträt

Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies at Portland State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Jewish Marginal People in Premodern Europe
2. Blind Beggars and Orphan Recruits: The Russian State, the Kahal, and
Marginal Jews in the Early Nineteenth Century
3. A Pile of Dust and Rubble": Poorhouses, Real and Imaginary
4. The Cholera Wedding
5. A "Republic of Beggars"? Charity, Jewish Backwardness, and the Specter
of the Jewish Idler
6. Madness and the Mad: From Family Burden to National Affliction
7. "We Singing Jews, We Jews Possessed": The Jewish Outcast as National
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Epilogue
Conclusion: Jewish Intersectionality at the European Fin-de-Siècle