Life Is with People is a book about Eastern European Jewish culture published in 1952 by Mark Zborowski and Elizabeth Herzog.

Originally subtitled "The Jewish Little-Town in Eastern Europe", it was later changed to "The Culture of the Shtetl" when released in paperback in the early 1960s.

The book originated from a study conducted as part of the Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures project, headed by anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

It covers various aspects of daily life including religious practices, education, work, marriages, and community dynamics.

[1] Historian Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett writes that one of the book's issues is its "identification of East European Jewish culture with the shtetl.