| #527002 in Books | 2014-12-01 | 2014-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.60 x9.10l,.0 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent book. Clearly illusts the role THAT jEWISH TAVERN ...|By Bill Farran|Excellent book. Clearly illusts the role THAT jEWISH TAVERN LEASE HOLDS PLAAYED INT pOLAND.|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|||"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
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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's r...
You easily download any file type for your device.Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland | Glenn Dynner.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
