Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia / Benjamin Nathans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nathans, Benjamin.

Series:

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 45.

Studies on the history of society and culture ; 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Russia--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg--History--20th century.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Russia.

Russia--Ethnic relations.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter

Part One. The Problem of Emancipation under the Old Regime

Part Two. The Jews of St. Petersburg

Part Three. Jews, Russians, and the Imperial University

Part Four. In the Court of Gentiles

Conclusion. The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612759307

9781282759305

1282759302

9780520931299

0520931297

9781597344937

1597344931

OCLC:

475928110