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Author | : Olga Litvak |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2006-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253000777 |
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"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 | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2008-11-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521515733 |
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This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of personal conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The conscription integrated Jews into the state transforming the repressed Jewish victims of the draft into modern imperial Russian Jews. The book contextualizes the reasons underlying the decision to draft Jews, the communal responses to the draft, the missionary initiatives directed toward Jews in the army, alleged Jewish draft evasion and Jewish military performance, and the strategies Jews used to endure military service. It also explores the growing antisemitism of the upper echelons of the military toward the Jews on the eve of World War I and the rise of Russian-Jewish loyalty and patriotism.
Author | : Larry Domnitch |
Publisher | : Devora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cantonists |
ISBN | : 9781930143852 |
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Based on memoirs of former Cantonists and their contemporaries, describes the fate of Jewish servicemen in the Russian army during the rule of Nicholas I, before 1855. Discusses the introduction of the Cantonist system in 1827, the abduction of Jewish children, and the role played in this by Jewish community leaders. Dwells on the conversion of the Jewish conscripts to Christianity; in many cases the conversions were forced. Presents stories of some former Cantonists, adapted from memoirs published in Russian or Yiddish or found in manuscripts in archives.
Author | : Olga Litvak |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2012-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813554373 |
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Commonly translated as the “Jewish Enlightenment,” the Haskalah propelled Jews into modern life. Olga Litvak argues that the idea of a Jewish modernity, championed by adherents of this movement, did not originate in Western Europe’s age of reason. Litvak contends that the Haskalah spearheaded a Jewish religious revival, better understood against the background of Eastern European Romanticism. Based on imaginative and historically grounded readings of primary sources, Litvak presents a compelling case for rethinking the relationship between the Haskalah and the experience of political and social emancipation. Most importantly, she challenges the prevailing view that the Haskalah provided the philosophical mainspring for Jewish liberalism. In Litvak’s ambitious interpretation, nineteenth-century Eastern European intellectuals emerge as the authors of a Jewish Romantic revolution. Fueled by contradictory longings both for community and for personal freedom, the poets and scholars associated with the Haskalah questioned the moral costs of civic equality and the achievement of middle-class status. In the nineteenth century, their conservative approach to culture as the cure for the spiritual ills of the modern individual provided a powerful argument for the development of Jewish nationalism. Today, their ideas are equally resonant in contemporary debates about the ramifications of secularization for the future of Judaism.
Author | : Harold Shukman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download War Or Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
They arrived in Archangel in the autumn of 1917 together with the Arctic winter and the chaos of the revolution, which soon descended into bloody civil war. How they fared and how they struggled to return to Britain is the story of War or Revolution."--Jacket.
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Jews, Russian |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : ChaeRan Y. Freeze |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611684552 |
Download Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521515734 |
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This book examines the experience of the Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827 and 1917.
Author | : ChaeRan Y. Freeze |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611684560 |
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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 | : Stefani Hoffman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812240642 |
Download The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.