The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History

The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History
Author: Antony Polonsky
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789624835

A very readable and comprehensive overview that examines the realities of Jewish life while setting them in their political, economic, and social contexts.

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland (Vol. 1-3)

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland (Vol. 1-3)
Author: Simon Dubnow
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN:

"History of the Jews in Russia and Poland: From the earliest times until the present day" in three volumes is a historical work which covers the history of the Jewish people in Eastern Europe for about 10 centuries. The work is divided in three parts; first volume covers the period from the earliest Jewish settlements in Eastern Europe until the death of Alexander I (1825); second volume covers the period from the death of Alexander I until the death of Alexander III (1825-1894); and the last volume spans from the accession of Nicholas II until the first couple of decades of 20th century.

The Jews in Poland and Russia

The Jews in Poland and Russia
Author: Antony Polonsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2021
Genre: Jews
ISBN: 9781800341067

Each of the three volumes of this work provides a comprehensive picture of the realities of Jewish life in the Polish lands in the period it covers, while also considering the contemporary political, economic, and social context. This volume, from 1881 to 1914, explores the factors that had a negative impact on Jewish life as well as the political and cultural movements that developed in consequence: Zionism, socialism, autonomism, the emergence of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish urbanization, and the rise of popular Jewish culture.

Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959)

Polish Jews in the Soviet Union (1939–1959)
Author: Katharina Friedla
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1644697513

Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.

The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941

The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941
Author: Azriel Shohet
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2013-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804785023

The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community. From the 1905 Russian revolution through World War One and the long prologue to the Holocaust, the sweep of world history and the fate of this dynamic center of Jewish life were intertwined. Pinsk's role in the bloody aftermath of World War One is still the subject of scholarly debates: the murder of 35 Jewish men from Pinsk, many from its educated elite, provoked the American and British leaders to send emissaries to Pinsk. Shohet argues that the executions were a deliberate ploy by the Polish military and government to intimidate the Jewish population of the new Poland. Despite an increasingly hostile Polish state, Pinsk's Jews managed to maintain their community through the 1920s and 30s—until World War Two brought a grim Soviet interregnum succeeded by the entry of the Nazis on July 4th, 1941. For the first volume of this two-volume collection, see The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 at www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=1442.

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881

The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Author: Israel Bartal
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812200810

In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. In The Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia

Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia
Author: ChaeRan Y. Freeze
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1611684552

This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among and between neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life storiesÑreflecting not only the typical but also the extraordinaryÑthe sources reveal the tensions and ruptures in a vanished society. An introductory survey of Russian Jewish history from the Polish partitions (1772Ð1795) to World War I combines with prefatory remarks, textual annotations, and a bibliography of suggested readings to provide a new perspective on the history of the Jews of Russia.

Shelter from the Holocaust

Shelter from the Holocaust
Author: Mark Edele
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 081434268X

This pioneering volume will interest scholars of eastern European history and Holocaust studies, as well as those with an interest in refugee and migration issues.

Memoirs of a Grandmother

Memoirs of a Grandmother
Author: Pauline Wengeroff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804775044

Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff, a gifted writer and astute social observer, paints a rich portrait of both traditional and modernizing Jewish societies in an extraordinary way, focusing on women and the family and offering a gendered account (and indictment) of assimilation. In Volume 1 of Memoirs of a Grandmother, Wengeroff depicts traditional Jewish society, including the religious culture of women, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who wished "his" Jews to be acculturated to modern Russian life.