Stepchildren of the Shtetl. The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800-1939, Paperback/Natan M. Meir

" Stepchildren of the Shtetl considers marginal peoples in East European Jewish society and culture--the disabled, mentally ill, and indigent--and how stereotypes and self-perceptions of Jewish marginality have in turn shaped modern Jewish culture, society, and politics"--