TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meir,Natan M.
TI  - Stepchildren of the shtetl: the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939 
T2  - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
SN  - 9781503613065
AV  - DS135 .S747 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Jews
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - History
KW  - Poor
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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