Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia
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Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia
（Studies on the history of society and culture / Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, editors, 45）
University of California Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-402) and index
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ISBN 9780520208308
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A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter. In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms", Nathans writes, a policy of selective integration stimulated social and geographic mobility among the empire's Jews. The reaction that culminated, toward the turn of the century, in ethnic restrictions on admission to universities, the professions, and other institutions of civil society reflected broad anxieties that Russians were being placed at a disadvantage in their own empire. Nathans's conclusions about the effects of selective integration and the Russian-Jewish encounter during this formative period should be of interest to all students of modern Jewish and modern Russian history.
Table of Contents
Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter Part I: The Problem of Emancipation under the Old Regime Part II: The Jews of St. Petersburg Part III: Jews, Russians, and the Imperial University Conclusion. The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective
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: pbk ISBN 9780520242326
Description
A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter. In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms," Nathans writes, a policy of selective integration stimulated social and geographic mobility among the empire's Jews. The reaction that culminated, toward the turn of the century, in ethnic restrictions on admission to universities, the professions, and other institutions of civil society reflected broad anxieties that Russians were being placed at a disadvantage in their own empire. Nathans's conclusions about the effects of selective integration and the Russian-Jewish encounter during this formative period will be of great interest to all students of modern Jewish and modern Russian history.
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter PART I: THE PROBLEM OF EMANCIPATION UNDER THE OLD REGIME 1. Jews and the Imperial Social Hierarchy 2. The Genesis of Selective Integration PART II. THE JEWS OF ST. PETERSBURG 3. Language, Ethnicity, and Urban Space 4. Conflict and Community 5. The Geography of Jewish Politics PART III. JEWS, RUSSIANS, AND THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY 6. The University as Melting Pot? 7. A Silent Pogrom PART IV. IN THE COURT OF GENTILES 8. The Judicial Reform and Jewish Citizenship 9. Ethnicity and Civil Society: The Russian Legal Profession Conclusion. The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective Bibliography Index
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