Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses

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Presents a social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl, arguing that in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish commun

In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian