"A sophisticated, erudite study. Shandler's new book focuses not so much on the Eastern European market town as on the changing ways in which Jews have employed it as 'social space to think with,' a ready-made idiom with which to address contemporary concerns."
(Jewish Review of Books) "Shandler's book is a tour de force. It will be a landmark addition to our understanding of modern Jewish culture."
- Samuel D. Kassow (Trinity College) "I read this book with more pleasure than many books with which I agree wholeheartedly. Without a doubt, Jeffrey Shandler is an extraordinarily talented scholar whose views deserve our time and consideration."
(Slavic and East European Journal) "A sophisticated, erudite study. Shandler's new book focuses not so much on the Eastern European market town as on the changing ways in which Jews have employed it as 'social space to think with,' a ready-made idiom with which to address contemporary concerns."
(Jewish Review of Books) "A sophisticated, erudite study. Shandler's new book focuses not so much on the Eastern European market town as on the changing ways in which Jews have employed it as 'social space to think with,' a ready-made idiom with which to address contemporary concerns."
(Jewish Review of Books) "Shandler's book is a tour de force. It will be a landmark addition to our understanding of modern Jewish culture."
- Samuel D. Kassow (Trinity College) "Shandler's book is a tour de force. It will be a landmark addition to our understanding of modern Jewish culture."
- Samuel D. Kassow (Trinity College) "[A] remarkable new book-exceedingly well-written and eminently suitable for general audiences.
(Commentary) "[A] remarkable new book-exceedingly well-written and eminently suitable for general audiences.
(Commentary) "I read this book with more pleasure than many books with which I agree wholeheartedly. Without a doubt, Jeffrey Shandler is an extraordinarily talented scholar whose views deserve our time and consideration."
(Slavic and East European Journal) "I read this book with more pleasure than many books with which I agree wholeheartedly. Without a doubt, Jeffrey Shandler is an extraordinarily talented scholar whose views deserve our time and consideration."
(Slavic and East European Journal)
