Editor’s Note
Steven T. Katz
Introduction
Samuel Kassow
1 The Importance of Demography and Patterns of Settlement for an Understanding of the Jewish Experience in East–Central Europe
Gershon David Hundert
2 A Shtetl with a Yeshiva: The Case of Volozhin
Immanuel Etkes
3 Rebbetzins, Wonder-Children, and the Emergence of the Dynastic Principle in Hasidism
Nehemia Polen
4 Two Jews, Three Opinions: Politics in the Shtetl at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Henry Abramson
5 The Shtetl in Poland, 1914–1918
Konrad Zieli´nski
6 The Shtetl in Interwar Poland
Samuel Kassow
7 Looking at the Yiddish Landscape: Representation in Nineteenth-Century
Hasidic and Maskilic Literature
Jeremy Dauber
8 Imagined Geography: The Shtetl, Myth, and Reality
Israel Bartal
9 Gender and the Disintegration of the Shtetl in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature
Naomi Seidman
10 Rediscovering the Shtetl as a New Reality: David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis
Mikhail Krutikov
11 Agnon’s Synthetic Shtetl
Arnold J. Band
12 The Image of the Shtetl in Contemporary Polish Fiction
Katarzyna Wi?ecl˜awska
13 Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust: A Case Study of Two Townships in Wolyn (Volhynia)
Yehuda Bauer
14 The World of the Shtetl
Elie Wiesel
About the Contributors
Index