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| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:08:17 -0800 (PST) | |
The Golden Age Shtetl
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Sunday,
March 12, 2014
7:30 PM
Hebrew College,
Newton, MA
Co-sponsored by JGSGB and Hebrew College
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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Jewish History at Northwestern University. He spoke at our 2011 Annual Lecture on Jewish Genealogy on "Drafted into the Tsar s Army: Russian Expectations, Jewish Experiences." Following his talk, Petrovsky-Shtern will sign copies of books purchased at the event. Space is limited; advance
ticket purchase is recommended. Sunday, March 30, Lecture Series (Temple Emanuel) Bennett Greenspan The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston is dedicated to helping people discover and research their Jewish family history. We offer monthly programs, maintain an extensive collection of research materials, publish an award-winning journal Mass-Pocha, and hosted the 2013 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. |
Professor Petrovsky-Shtern will discuss
his new book The Golden Age Shtetl. The shtetl
was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the 18th
and 19th centuries, yet it has long been one of the most
neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish
experience. Challenging popular misconceptions of the
shtetl as an isolated, ramshackle Jewish village
stricken by poverty and pogroms, Petrovsky-Shtern argues
in his latest book that, in its heyday from the 1790s to
the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community as
vibrant as any in Europe. | |
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