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The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
Israel Bartal
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Paperback. "A remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a nontraditional narrative."-David Engel, New York University Translator(s): Naor, Chaya. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1DV; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Jewish Culture & Contexts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812219074
SKU
V9780812219074
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About Israel Bartal
Israel Bartal is Avraham Harman Chair in Jewish History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his books are The Records of the Council of the Four Lands, Volume 1: 1580-1792, Exile in the Homeland, and Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood (with Magdalena Opalski).
Reviews for The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
"The book represents a remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a nontraditional narrative. He offers readers basic information about the staple features of the East European Jewish story-including the Hasidic and haskalah movements, the struggle for emancipation in two empires, the shtetl, population growth, urbanization, emigration, the ... Read more