In this Book
- The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- Chapter 1. The Jews of the Kingdom
- pp. 14-22
- Chapter 5. Russia and the Jews
- pp. 58-69
- Bibliography
- pp. 185-194
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 201-203
Additional Information
ISBN
9780812200812
Related ISBN(s)
9780812219074
MARC Record
OCLC
798298147
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2005