Stepchildren of the shtetl : the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 / Natan M. Meir.

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Meir, Natan M [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9781503613065

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DS135 .S747 2020

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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.

Subject: "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"--

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Includes bibliographies 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"--

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