The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Title | The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 PDF eBook |
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.
The Jews of Eastern Europe
Title | The Jews of Eastern Europe PDF eBook |
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Release | 1926 |
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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia
Title | Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia PDF eBook |
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.
The Golden Age Shtetl
Title | The Golden Age Shtetl PDF eBook |
Author | Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 444 |
Release | 2015-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0691168512 |
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."
The Golden Age Shtetl
Title | The Golden Age Shtetl PDF eBook |
Author | Ĭokhanan Petrovskiĭ-Shtern |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 431 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780691160740 |
Presents a social, economic, and cultural history of the shtetl, arguing that in its heyday from the 1790s to the 1840s, the shtetl was a thriving Jewish community.
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Title | Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Gershon David Hundert |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 2004-02-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520238443 |
Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.
Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe Since 1750
Title | Jews and Their Neighbours in Eastern Europe Since 1750 PDF eBook |
Author | Yiśraʼel Barṭal |
Publisher | Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781904113911 |
Counters the traditional image of Jews being in a permanent state of conflict with their eastern European neighbors by exploring neglected aspects of inter-group interaction, focusing on commonalities, reciprocal influence, and exchange.