Mark ZborowskiBesprekingen
Auteur van Life Is with People: The Culture of the Shtetl
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This scholarly work reflects a "new kind of anthropology", with members from different discipline depending not just on interviews and observations, but analysis of literature, history and films, as well as the dialectics of numerous seminars.[18]
This is not a portrait of a village. It does reflect the images a people had of themselves who were living in different societies different from their own. Particular care is taken with the image of self and other, finding delight in the culture of the shtetl under the protection and pogroms of the "others".
In the Foreword, Margaret Mead helpfully walks through the development of the project and how it was conducted, and explains that this monograph is intended as a primary source on the extinct Eastern European Jewish culture. Its brilliant light was extinguished by the Bolsheviks and the Nazis. The values survive, and have implications for all people who must learn to live together.