Showing Results 1 - 2 of 2
Book of the Kahal: Materials for the Study of the Jewish Life
Public Access
Text
An agent of the kahal who is charged with monitoring Jewish cases in the police and in giving gifts to officials is a Jewish middleman. Jews utilize the art of the middleman not only in trade…

Contributor:

Jacob Brafman

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1869

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Community, Communal organizations, Shtetl, Conversion, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture
The Hit of the Century
Restricted
Text
The Jewish theme in Ru.Shtetl is a metaphor. The closest mainstream parallel explaining the essence of what Patrick Lisidze conceived of is Siniavskii’s pseudonym, Abram Terts. Terts’s Jewishness was…

Contributor:

Psoy Korolenko

Places:

Moscow, Russia

Date:

2003

Subjects:

Jewish languages, Yiddish, Shtetl, Modernity, Jewish identity, Language & Linguistics, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Language & Linguistics