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...
