The Jewish Dark Continent

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The Jewish Dark Continent is written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674062647 (ISBN 10) and 9780674062641 (ISBN 13).

The Jews of the Pale of Settlement created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary named An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a revealing questionnaire in Yiddish, translated here in its entirety for the first time.