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portada Jewish Life in Tsarist Russia
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
166
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781036482725

Jewish Life in Tsarist Russia

Matthew B. Schwartz (Author) · Cambridge Scholars Publishing · Hardcover

Jewish Life in Tsarist Russia - Matthew B. Schwartz

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Synopsis "Jewish Life in Tsarist Russia"

This history of the Jews in Russia, 1800-1920, begins with Minister Sergei Witte's advice to Tsar Nicholas II on how to deal with his Jews, advice which the tsar foolishly rejected. We then turn back to the beginning of the Pale of Settlement with an eye on Jews' relations with a succession of anti-Semitic tsars, with non-Jewish neighbors, with each other, and with themselves. The book ends with World War I and the violent pogroms which followed. We find a variety of sources: fiction writers like Sholom Aleichem, memoirists like Pauline Wengeroff describing the shtetl, rabbinic leaders like Yisrael Salanter and the Hasidic rabbis of Lubavitch dealing with their people and their communities, Maskilim propounding a non-traditional approach, Russian writers like Alexander Herzen on encountering young Jewish boys drafted into the army, or Nikolai Gogol's fictional 'Yankel' in 'Taras Bulba.' Abraham Cahan writes of the huge immigration wave touched off by the pogroms of the 1880s; our emphasis throughout is on the experiences of individuals. Read more

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