Russia's First Modern Jews : : The Jews of Shklov / / ed. by David E. Fishman, Yoichi Funabashi.
Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its annexation by Tsarist Russia, this remot...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1996] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 1996 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reappraisals Jewish Social History ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: The Jews in the "Land of Russia"
- 1. The Great Divide: Hasidim and Mitnagdim
- 2. From Byelorussia to Prussia: The Odyssey of Rabbi Barukh Schick
- 3. New Social and Cultural Horizons
- 4. Ideological and Literary Ferment
- 5. Struggles for Emancipation
- 6. Rabbinic Accommodation
- 7. Decline and Dissolution
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index