The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 / Israel Bartal translated by Chaya Naor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barṭal, Yiśraʼel.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Standardized Title:

Me-"umah" li-"le&#x2BC om". English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History--18th century.

History.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 203 pages :) : maps

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

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. In The Jews of Eastern Europe 1772-1881, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.

Contents:

1 The Jews of the Kingdom 14

2 The Partitions of Poland: The End of the Old Order, 1772-1795 23

3 Towns and Cities: Society and Economy, 1795-1863 38

4 Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and Maskilim 47

5 Russia and the Jews 58

6 Austria and the Jews of Galicia, 1772-1848 70

7 "Brotherhood" and Disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the Nineteenth Century 82

8 "My Heart Is in the West": The Haskalah Movement in Eastern Europe 90

9 "The Days of Springtime": Czar Alexander II and the Era of Reform 102

10 Between Two Extremes: Radicalism and Orthodoxy 112

11 The Conservative Alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef 124

12 "The Jew Is Coming!" Anti-Semitism from Right and from Left 134

13 "Storms in the South," 1881-1882 143

Conclusion: Jews as an Ethnic Minority in Eastern Europe 157.

Notes:

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Multi-User.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-194) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812200812

0812200810

OCLC:

798298147

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