Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume 17
The Shtetl: Myth and Reality
Antony Polonsky

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The majority of Polish Jews always lived in the villages and small towns known as shtetls. Much of what we know of life in the shtetls comes from literary accounts rather than from historical research. This volume redresses that imbalance, with leading experts investigating the social and economic history of the shtetl as well as the way in which shtetl life has been reflected in Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish literature.

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Antony Polonsky is the first holder of the Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, a joint appointment held in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Shimon Redlich is Professor of Modern History, Director of the Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies, and Solly Yellin Chair in Lithuanian and east European Jewry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba.

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Joel Berkowitz, Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, State University of New York at Albany
Alina Cala, Researcher, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Glenn Dynner, Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania
Gennady Estraikh, Rauch Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, New York University
Ryszard Fenigsen
Gabriel N. Finder, University of Virginia
Michal Galas, Lecturer, Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Lech W. Gluchowski, independent scholar and writer, Hamilton Ontario
Piotr Gontarczyk
Brian Horowitz, holder of the Family Sizeler Chair for Jewish Studies, Tulane University
John Klier, Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College London
Edward Kossoy
Mikhail Krutikov, Assistant Professor of Jewish-Slavic Cultural Relations, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rosa Lehmann, Researcher, Menasseh Ben Israel Institute for Jewish Social & Cultural Studies, Amsterdam
Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Assistant Professor in Jewish History, Northwestern University
Ben-Cion Pinchuk, University of Haifa
Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
Eugenia Prokóp-Janiec, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Ksawery Pruszynski
Shimon Redlich, Professor of Modern History, Director of the Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies, and Solly Yellin Chair in Lithuanian and East European Jewry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba
Regina Renz, Professor of History, Akademia Swietokrzyska, Kielce
Adam Teller, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Department of Jewish History, University of Haifa
Katarzyna Wieclawska, Centre for Jewish Studies, Marie-Sklodowska Curie University, Lublin
Miroslaw Wócik, Senior Lecturer, Akademia Swietokrzyska, Kielce
Konrad Zielinski, Assistant Professor, Centre for Jewish Studies, Marie-Sklodowska Curie University, Lublin
Jolanta Zyndul, Head, Centrum Badania i Nauczania Dziejow i Kultury Zydow w Polsce im. Mordechaja Anielewicza, University of Warsaw

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