The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research. This volume redresses that imbalance, with leading experts investigating the social and economic history of the shtetl as well as the way in which shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature. There is also a hardback version of the book.
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This latest volume of Polin fully succeeds in maintaining the scholarly standards set by its predecessors.’ Lionel Kochan Jewish Historical Studies