Stepchildren of the shtetl: the destitute, disabled, and mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939
Jewish marginal people in premodern Europe -- Blind beggars and orphan recruits : the Russian state, the kahal, and marginal Jews in the early nineteenth century -- "A pile of dust and rubble" : poorhouses, real and imaginary -- The cholera wedding -- A "republic of beggars"? : c...