Stepchildren of the shtetl : the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 / Natan M. Meir.
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TextSeries: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culturePublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781503613065
- 1503613062
- Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Marginality, Social -- Europe, Eastern -- History
- Poor -- Europe, Eastern -- History
- Mentally ill -- Europe, Eastern -- History
- People with disabilities -- Europe, Eastern -- History
- Juifs -- Europe de l'Est -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Juifs -- Europe de l'Est -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
- Pauvres -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire
- Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire
- Personnes handicapées -- Europe de l'Est -- Histoire
- HISTORY / Jewish
- Jews -- Social conditions
- Marginality, Social
- Mentally ill
- People with disabilities
- Poor
- Eastern Europe
- 1800-1999
- 305.5/69089924047 23
- DS135.E83 M345 2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jewish marginal people in premodern Europe -- Blind beggars and orphan recruits : the Russian state, the kahal, and marginal Jews in the early nineteenth century -- "A pile of dust and rubble" : poorhouses, real and imaginary -- The cholera wedding -- A "republic of beggars"? : charity, Jewish backwardness, and the specter of the Jewish idler -- Madness and the mad : from family burden to national affliction -- "We singing Jews, we Jews possessed" : the Jewish outcast as national icon.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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