| #1282103 in eBooks | 2013-11-18 | 2013-11-18 | File type: PDF||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Yitzchok Goldson|Excellent. A real eye opener into the place of Jews in "Shetel" Poland.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Three Stars|By Customer|it is ok|0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| It acted like an old PDF file|By W. Weigel ||"Yankel s Tavern is a path-breaking work that should be of interest to students of Polish, Russian, and Jewish history alike....With his careful mining of archival materials, especially case studies...Dynner has shown a more complex, even contradicto
Awarded Honorable Mention for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
In nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, the Jewish-run tavern was often the center of leisure, hospitality, business, and even religious festivities. This unusual situation came about because the nobles who owned taverns throughout the formerly Polish lands believed that only Jews were sober enough to run taverns profitably, a belief so ingrained as to endure even the rise of Hasidism...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland | Glenn Dynner. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
