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Russia's First Modern Jews
Fishman
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Description for Russia's First Modern Jews
Paperback. Features three intellectual currents in East European Jewry - Hasidism, Rabbinic Mitnagdism, and Haskalah. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this title chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia. Editor(s): Fishman, David E.; Funabashi, Yoichi. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
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 remote region was severed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; its 65,000 Jews were thus cut off from the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Forced into independence, these Jews set about forging a community with its own religious leadership and institutions.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814726600
SKU
V9780814726600
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About Fishman
David E. Fishman is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Yoichi Funabashi is currently the Washington Bureau Chief of the Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese daily at which he has served as a correspondent in Washington, D.C., and Beijing and as diplomatic correspondent and columnist. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and ... Read more
Reviews for Russia's First Modern Jews
An important contribution to the history of Russian Jewry, the Haskalah, and traditional Jewish society. I heartily recommend it.
Michael Stanislawski,Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University A succinct and well-researched study. Essential.
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Michael Stanislawski,Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University A succinct and well-researched study. Essential.
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