How Long to Read Stepchildren of the Shtetl

How Long Does it Take to Read Stepchildren of the Shtetl?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 52 minutes to read Stepchildren of the Shtetl by Natan M. Meir

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Memoirs of Jewish life in the east European shtetl often recall the hekdesh (town poorhouse) and its residents: beggars, madmen and madwomen, disabled people, and poor orphans. Stepchildren of the Shtetl tells the story of these marginalized figures from the dawn of modernity to the eve of the Holocaust. Combining archival research with analysis of literary, cultural, and religious texts, Natan M. Meir recovers the lived experience of Jewish society's outcasts and reveals the central role that they came to play in the drama of modernization. Those on the margins were often made to bear the burden of the nation as a whole, whether as scapegoats in moments of crisis or as symbols of degeneration, ripe for transformation by reformers, philanthropists, and nationalists. Shining a light into the darkest corners of Jewish society in eastern Europe—from the often squalid poorhouse of the shtetl to the slums and insane asylums of Warsaw and Odessa, from the conscription of poor orphans during the reign of Nicholas I to the cholera wedding, a magical ritual in which an epidemic was halted by marrying outcasts to each other in the town cemetery—Stepchildren of the Shtetl reconsiders the place of the lowliest members of an already stigmatized minority.

How long is Stepchildren of the Shtetl?

Stepchildren of the Shtetl by Natan M. Meir is 411 pages long, and a total of 103,161 words.

This makes it 139% the length of the average book. It also has 126% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Stepchildren of the Shtetl Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 23 minutes to read Stepchildren of the Shtetl aloud.

What Reading Level is Stepchildren of the Shtetl?

Stepchildren of the Shtetl is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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