Mikhail Krutikov, Ethnography and Satire in the Yiddish Shtetl Novel of the Haskalah . . 7
Nurit Orchan, Shtetl, Metropolis and in Between. Women's Writing on Life in an Age of Transition, 1881-1914 . . 29
Roland Gruschka, "A New Babylon" - The City in Sholem Asch's Novel Petersburg . . 51

About the authors . . 72