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Author | : ChaeRan Y. Freeze |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611684552 |
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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 | : Ellie R. Schainker |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2016-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503600246 |
Download Confessions of the Shtetl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates converts' tales of love, desperation, and fear, tracing the uneasy contest between religious choice and collective Jewish identity in tsarist Russia. Rather than viewing the shtetl as the foundation myth for modern Jewish nationhood, this work reveals the shtetl's history of conversions and communal engagement with converts, which ultimately yielded a cultural hybridity that both challenged and fueled visions of Jewish separatism. Drawing on extensive research with conversion files in imperial Russian archives, in addition to the mass press, novels, and memoirs, Ellie R. Schainker offers a sociocultural history of religious toleration and Jewish life that sees baptism not as the fundamental departure from Jewishness or the Jewish community, but as a conversion that marked the start of a complicated experiment with new forms of identity and belonging. Ultimately, she argues that the Jewish encounter with imperial Russia did not revolve around coercion and ghettoization but was a genuinely religious drama with a diverse, attractive, and aggressive Christianity.
Author | : Eugene M. Avrutin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Identification |
ISBN | : 9780801448621 |
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"This absorbing book is a fine contribution to the growing literature on official identification and the administrative life of the state, including its characteristic product, the paper document."--Jane Caplan, University of Oxford
Author | : Jeffrey Veidlinger |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253011523 |
Download In the Shadow of the Shtetl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history based on interviews with hundreds of Ukrainian Jews who survived both Hitler and Stalin, recounting experiences ordinary and extraordinary. The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some four hundred returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger’s reappraisal of the traditional narrative of twentieth-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.
Author | : ChaeRan Y. Freeze |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781584651604 |
Download Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A pathbreaking study of Jewish marriage and divorce in 19th-century Russia.
Author | : Eugene M. Avrutin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501726722 |
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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.
Author | : Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691168512 |
Download The Golden Age Shtetl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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."
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.
Author | : Benjamin Nathans |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2004-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520242327 |
Download Beyond the Pale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Eliyana R. Adler |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Jewish day schools |
ISBN | : 9780814334928 |
Download In Her Hands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.