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Natan M. Meir - Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914 - 9780253222077 - V9780253222077
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Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914

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Description for Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914 Paperback. Jewish life in late imperial Kiev Series: The Modern Jewish Experience. Num Pages: 424 pages, 33 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 610. Weight in Grams: 567.

Populated by urbane Jewish merchants and professionals as well as new arrivals from the shtetl, imperial Kiev was acclaimed for its opportunities for education, culture, employment, and entrepreneurship but cursed for the often pitiless persecution of its Jews. Kiev, Jewish Metropolis limns the history of Kiev Jewry from the official readmission of Jews to the city in 1859 to the outbreak of World War I. It explores the Jewish community's politics, its leadership struggles, socioeconomic and demographic shifts, religious and cultural sensibilities, and relations with the city's Christian population. Drawing on archival documents, the local press, memoirs, and belles lettres, Natan M. Meir shows Kiev's Jews at work, at leisure, in the synagogue, and engaged in the activities of myriad Jewish organizations and philanthropies.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Series
The Modern Jewish Experience
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253222077
SKU
V9780253222077
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About Natan M. Meir
Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

Reviews for Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914
Kiev, Jewish Metropolis is a welcome addition to our knowledge of an important city that, [Meir] correctly points out, has remained surprisingly underresearched. Vol. 70.3, Fall 2011
Slavic Review
Natan Meir's meticulous new history of Kiev Jewry in the modern period, is an assiduous work of conventional scholarship. Meir provides a thorough, lucid and ultimately heartrending account of the noble successes of Kiev's Jews in building a solid Jewish community.May 25, 2011
Forward
Without any doubt this is a very important first monograph on the history of Jews in Kiev, which reveals many new aspects of Jewish life in the city and in the Tsarist Empire and brings one of the largest Jewish communities in Russia into the scholarly orbit.
Shofar
Meir has given us a penetrating study. His style of writing is clear and interesting. He knows how to tell a story, arouse curiosity, and sustain interest, a quality that so many academic studies lack. The book merits translation into Hebrew. It is a significant contribution to the historiography of East European Jewry.
Jewish History
Kiev, Jewish Metropolis . . . is a rich social, cultural, and institutional history of Jewish life in one of its most important and hitherto least understood urban centers.
The Journal of Modern History
The author attempted to and succeeded in doing two things: producing 'a history of late-imperial Kiev Jewry and an evaluation of the developent of Jewish life in a Russian city under the last three tsars'. . . . Recommended. April 2011
Choice
The best books in Russian-Jewish history of recent years continue to question the myths and to look at the facts anew with the help of archival materials and other rare sources. Natan Meir's book does exactly this. . . . As he demonstrates in this book, Natan Meir is a careful and innovative scholar.
SEER
Meir's book provides a broad history of Jewish Kiev in the half-century between the loosening of residence restrictions and the outbreak of the First World War, and gives an exceptionally rich portrait of the complex and changing nature of Kiev's Jewish community.
Revolutionary Russia
Meir's book has opened up a number of new perspectives for those interested in Jewish experiences in late imperial Russia, specifically in the city that was then almost equally Jewish, Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish. The book is also indispensable for students of modern Ukrainian history and of Ukrainian-Jewish relations, which has only recently begun attracting serious scholarly attention.
Journal of Ukrainian Studies
This study . . . represents an important addition to the historiography of Russian Jewry in that it addresses a notable gap in the literature: the Jewish population of late imperial Kiev. . . . Meir's portrait of Kievan Jewry and its institutional formation is a thoroughly researched study that considers multiple perspectives, namely those of a diverse Jewish community, its competing political leaders, the tsarist government, and provincial and municipal administrators.
East European Jewish Affairs
Drawing on archival documents, the local press, memoirs, and belles letters, Meir shows Kiev's Jews at work, at leisure, in the synagogue, and engaged in the activities of myriad Jewish organizations and philanthropies.74 Winter/Spring 2011
Menorah Review
There is a great deal to learn and appreciate in this splendid book.Autumn 2013
Journal of Jewish Studies

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