Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia

Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia / Benjamin Nathans.

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 sou...

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Main Author: Nathans, Benjamin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 45.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Jews > Russia > History > 19th century.
Jews > Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg > History > 20th century.
Jews > Russia > Cultural assimilations.
HISTORY.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Ethnic relations
Jews
Russia > Ethnic relations.
Russia
Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg
History
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Table of Contents:
  • LIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter; PART I. THE PROBLEM OF EMANCIPATION UNDER THE OLD REGIME; PART II. THE JEWS OF ST. PETERSBURG; PART III. JEWS, RUSSIANS, AND THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY; PART IV. IN THE COURT OF GENTILES; Conclusion The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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