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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barṭal, Yiśraʼel.

Contributor:

Naor, Chaya.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts.

Jewish culture and contexts

Standardized Title:

Me-"umah" li-"leʼom". English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Pa.] : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

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, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Jews of the Kingdom

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

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

Chapter 4 Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and Maskilim

Chapter 5 Russia and the Jews

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

Chapter 7 ''Brotherhood'' and Disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8 ''My Heart Is in the West'': The Haskalah Movement in Eastern Europe

Chapter 9 ''The Days of Springtime'': Czar Alexander II and the Era of Reform

Chapter 10 Between Two Extremes: Radicalism and Orthodoxy

Chapter 11 The Conservative Alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef

Chapter 12 ''The Jew Is Coming!'' Anti-Semitism from Right and from Left

Chapter 13 ''Storms in the South,'' 1881-1882

Conclusion: Jews as an Ethnic Minority in Eastern Europe

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786613211262

9781283211260

1283211262

9780812200812

0812200810

OCLC:

705795930