Russia S First Modern Jews
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Russia S First Modern Jews
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Author : David E. Fishman
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1996-10-01
Russia S First Modern Jews written by David E. Fishman and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-10-01 with Religion categories.
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.
Conscription And The Search For Modern Russian Jewry
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Author : Olga Litvak
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-06
Conscription And The Search For Modern Russian Jewry written by Olga Litvak and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-06 with History categories.
"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.
The Road To Modern Jewish Politics
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Author : Eli Lederhendler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1989-07-27
The Road To Modern Jewish Politics written by Eli Lederhendler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-07-27 with History categories.
It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life. In the case of the Jews of Russia, the pogroms of 1881 have been regarded as the watershed event which triggered the political awakening of Jewish intellectuals. Here Lederhendler explores previously neglected antecedents to this turning point in the history of the Jewish people in the first scholarly work to examine concretely the transition of a Jewish community from traditional to post-traditional politics.
Russia Gathers Her Jews
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Author : John Klier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Russia Gathers Her Jews written by John Klier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
Jewish Renaissance In The Russian Revolution
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Author : Kenneth B. Moss
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-30
Jewish Renaissance In The Russian Revolution written by Kenneth B. Moss and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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.
New Voices Of Russian Jewry
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Author : Orbach
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1980-12
New Voices Of Russian Jewry written by Orbach and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-12 with Religion categories.
Jews And The Imperial State
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Author : Eugene M. Avrutin
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Jews And The Imperial State written by Eugene M. Avrutin and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-05 with History categories.
At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, a gradual shift occurred in the ways in which European governments managed their populations. In the Russian Empire, this transformation in governance meant that Jews could no longer remain a people apart. The identification of Jews by passports, vital statistics records, and censuses was tied to the growth and development of government institutions, the creation of elaborate record-keeping procedures, and the universalistic challenge of documenting populations. In Jews and the Imperial State, Eugene M. Avrutin argues that the challenge of knowing who was Jewish and where Jews were, evolved from the everyday administrative concerns of managing territorial movement, ethnic diversity, and the maze of rights, special privileges, and temporary exemptions that composed the imperial legal code. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexplored archival materials, Avrutin tells the story of how one imperial population, the Jews, shaped the world in which they lived by negotiating with what were often perceived to be contradictory and highly restrictive laws and institutions. Although scholars have long interpreted imperial policies toward Jews in essentially negative terms, this groundbreaking book shifts the focus by analyzing what the law made possible. Some Jews responded to the system of government by circumventing legal statutes, others by bribing, converting, or resorting to various forms of manipulations, and still others by appealing to the state with individual grievances and requests.
A Travel Guide To Jewish Russia Ukraine
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Author : Frank, Ben G.
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-23
A Travel Guide To Jewish Russia Ukraine written by Frank, Ben G. and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-23 with Travel categories.
"A priceless asset to any traveler whose goal is to explore the Jewish past of these two historical countries." --The Jewish Advocate The author follows in the footsteps of his namesake, the rabbi explorer of the twelfth century, Benjamin of Tudela, to create the first all-encompassing guide to Jewish Russia and Ukraine, with stops in Bulgaria and Romania. Until Communism fell, the Jews of Russia and Ukraine had been suppressed and denied human and religious rights. Today, not only are they reborn, but they are rebuilding a new, vibrant community for the twenty-first century. Frank explores this rebirth and guides both first-time and experienced travelers to Jewish and historical sites. He profiles synagogues, monuments, and schools that can be found in such cities as St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, and even Kishinev in Moldava. Approximately 120 years ago, the majority of the world's Jews lived in what was called the "Pale of Settlement" in the Russian Empire. Most American Jews today trace their ancestry to Russia and the surrounding territories, especially Ukraine. A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine will aid those visiting places where relatives once lived, as well as those simply in search of history.
Beyond The Pale
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Author : Benjamin Nathans
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-08-29
Beyond The Pale written by Benjamin Nathans and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-29 with Religion categories.
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. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter. In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms," Nathans writes, a policy of selective integration stimulated social and geographic mobility among the empire's Jews. The reaction that culminated, toward the turn of the century, in ethnic restrictions on admission to universities, the professions, and other institutions of civil society reflected broad anxieties that Russians were being placed at a disadvantage in their own empire. Nathans's conclusions about the effects of selective integration and the Russian-Jewish encounter during this formative period will be of great interest to all students of modern Jewish and modern Russian history.
Everyday Jewish Life In Imperial Russia
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Author : ChaeRan Y. Freeze
language : en
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Release Date : 2013-12-03
Everyday Jewish Life In Imperial Russia written by ChaeRan Y. Freeze and has been published by Brandeis University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-03 with Social Science categories.
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.