<p>Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the <i>hekdesh</i> (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. <i>Stepchildren of the Shtetl</i> tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. </p><p>Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society''s outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe¿from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscriptio
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AWAKENING THE POWER OF SELF-HEALING is a book containing two parts that will empower readers with the ability to take active control of their health through an accessible, natural and life-affirming regime. Part 1, "Empower Your Body for Ever Growing...
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<DIV><B>A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belonging</B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movement in the Soviet Union...
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In Shtetl Love Song Grigory Kanovich writes about his mother and in doing so peels back the surface of the rich community that lived in pre-war Lithuania. It is a requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl, for a people and a way of life that was destroyed.
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