Chaeran Y. Freeze

ChaeRan Y. Freeze is an associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University. Her most recent book, co-written with Jay M. Harris, is Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents, 1772–1914.

How should we think about the Eastern European market town? Did the shtetl ever have a golden age?

What was life like in pre-revolutionary Russia? It certainly did not take place in an unchanging shtetl.