The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 /
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 ter...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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 to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity. InThe Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 203 pages) : maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283211262 9781283211260 9780812200812 0812200810 9786613211262 6613211265 |