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importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number947.004924/0023
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]02344a
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]New York University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2007
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp29-38
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780814748015
NotesArticle from the book 'The shtetl: new evaluations' pp29-38
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
By the mid 18th centruty, more than 70% of the Polish Jewish population lived in the eastern half of the Polish-Lithuanian commomwealth (today's eastern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania). These shtetlekh reflected an emerging socio-economic microsphere that brought together Jews and peasants.
