Movable Inn : The Rural Jewish Population of Minsk Guberniya in 1793-1914 / Judith Kalik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalik, Judith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--History.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Jews are typically viewed as urban dwellers. However there was a considerable Jewish presence in villages from the very beginning of their settlement in Eastern Europe in the 12th century, up until the Holocaust. The presence of a large Jewish population in villages was, in fact, one of the most distinctive features of East European Jewry. The colourful personality of Jewish leaseholders of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages was often depicted in Polish, Russian and Jewish literature of the 19th century, but the real knowledge about the East European rural Jews beyond the stereotypical view is still at large.The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The present study is based mainly on systematic sources, which produced, for the first time, a full picture of Jewish settlement in the countryside in one particular region of the Russian Empire.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Historical Background

2 The Legal Position of Rural Jews in the Russian Empire

3 The Demographics and Geographic Distribution of Rural Jews

Appendix 1: Tables to Chapter 3

4 Lords and Masters

Appendix 2: Tables to Chapter 4

5 Occupational Structure

6 Family Structure

7 Communal Organization

Appendix 3: Tables to Chapter 7

8 Cultural and Religious Life

9 Jewish Farmers

10 The Construction of Railways and the Decline of the Propination System

11 Genealogical Perspectives

12 Conclusions

13 Appendix 4: Maps

Abbreviations

Bibliography

List of Figures

List of Tables

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9783110576092

3110576090

OCLC:

1032691477