RT Book
T1 Stepchildren of the shtetl: the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
T2 Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
A1 Meir, Natan M.
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/168982591X
AB 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.
AB "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"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 299-329
CN DS135.E83
SN 9781503613058
SN 9781503611832
K1 Jews : Europe, Eastern : Social conditions : 19th century
K1 Jews : Europe, Eastern : Social conditions : 20th century
K1 Marginality, Social : Europe, Eastern : History
K1 Poor : Europe, Eastern : History
K1 Mentally ill : Europe, Eastern : History
K1 People with disabilities : Europe, Eastern : History