So Many
A Demographic History of East European Jews
About the author
Shaul Stampfer is Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewry and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also taught at Harvard University and elsewhere, including Moscow (1989–91), where he helped establish the Jewish University. Through his many published articles he has made a seminal contribution to the Jewish social history of eastern Europe, opening up new areas of research in the history of Jewish education, Jewish demography and family life, community organization and leadership, and related topics. He is the author of Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Eastern Europe and Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning, also published by the Littman Library.
400 pages
ISBN: 978-1-906764-58-6
£39.50 / $64.50
Publication December 2021
Other books by this author:
Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century
Creating a Tradition of Learning
Families, Rabbis and Education
Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth-Century Eastern Europe