TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meir, Natan M.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Stepchildren of the shtetl: the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
T3  - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
PB  - Stanford University Press
CY  - Stanford, California
KW  - Jews
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Marginality, Social
KW  - History
KW  - Poor
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - People with disabilities
AB  - Jewish marginal people in premodern Europe -- Blind beggars and orphan recruits : the Russian state, the kahal, and marginal Jews in the early nineteenth century -- "A pile of dust and rubble" : poorhouses, real and imaginary -- The cholera wedding -- A "republic of beggars"? : charity, Jewish backwardness, and the specter of the Jewish idler -- Madness and the mad : from family burden to national affliction -- "We singing Jews, we Jews possessed" : the Jewish outcast as national icon.
SN  - 9781503613058
LA  - English
N1  - Natan M. Meir
ID  - 168982591X
ER  -