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Author | : David E. Fishman |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0814728057 |
Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its annexation by Tsarist Russia, this remote region was severed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; its 65,000 Jews were thus cut off from the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Forced into independence, these Jews set about forging a community with its own religious leadership and institutions. The three great intellectual currents in East European Jewry--Hasidism, Rabbinic Mitnagdism, and Haskalah--all converged on Eastern Belorussia, where they clashed and competed. In the course of a generation, the community of Shklov—the most prominent of the towns in the area—witnessed an explosion of intellectual and cultural activity. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, David Fishman here chronicles the remarkable story of these first modern Jews of Russia.
Author | : John Klier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780875809830 |
Seeks to revise the traditional view of Russian Jewish historiographers that religious intolerance, xenophobia, and belief in a Jewish economic threat motivated imperial policy towards the Jews after the partition of Poland. Emphasizes the influence of Western reform tradition on the formation of that policy. Surveys, also, the Jews' legal status in Poland and Polish religious and economic antisemitism.
Author | : Olga Litvak |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2006-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253000777 |
"Olga Litvak has written a book of astonishing originality and intellectual force.... In vivid prose, she takes the reader on a journey through the Russian-Jewish literary imagination." -- Benjamin Nathans Russian Jews were first conscripted into the Imperial Russian army during the reign of Nicholas I in an effort to integrate them into the population of the Russian Empire. Conscripted minors were to serve, in practical terms, for life. Although this system was abandoned by his successor, the conscription experience remained traumatic in the popular memory and gave rise to a large and continuing literature that often depicted Jewish soldiers as heroes. This imaginative and intellectually ambitious book traces the conscription theme in novels and stories by some of the best-known Russian Jewish writers such as Osip Rabinovich, Judah-Leib Gordon, and Mendele Mokher Seforim, as well as by relatively unknown writers. Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
Author | : Maxim D. Shrayer |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0815652437 |
Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence.
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.
Author | : Kenneth B. Moss |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-10-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780674035102 |
Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a “Jewish renaissance.” Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism, and culture itself—the pivot point for the encounter between Jews and European modernity over the past century.
Author | : Benjamin Nathans |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2004-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520242326 |
A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, 'beyond the Pale' of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. This text reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter, using long-closed Russian archives and other sources.
Author | : Stefani Hoffman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812240642 |
In this multidisciplinary volume, leading historians provide new understanding of a time that sent shockwaves through Jewish communities in and beyond the Russian Empire and transformed the way Jews thought about the politics of ethnic and national identity.
Author | : Eliyana R. Adler |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Jewish day schools |
ISBN | : 9780814334928 |
Illuminates the role that private schools for Jewish girls played in Russian Jewish society and documents their influence on contemporary political discourse and educational innovation.
Author | : Nathaniel Deutsch |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2011-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674062647 |
At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish “Dark Continent.” Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archive—what he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elite—which would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, An-sky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddish—exploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimacies—the Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction. Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of An-sky’s almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. An-sky’s project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.