Stepchildren of the shtetl: the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- 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 Du...
| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- 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 Icon -- Epilogue -- Conclusion: Jewish Intersectionality at the European Fin-de-Siècle -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- 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. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 299-329 |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (364 Seiten), Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781503613065 |
