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Russia's first modern Jews the Jews of Shklov / David E. Fishman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fishman, David E., 1957-
- Series:
- Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history.
- Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Haskalah.
- zsidók--Sklov--történet.
- zsidók.
- Juden--Geschichte--Shklov--Geistesleben.
- Juden.
- Haskalah--Belarus--Shkloŭ--History--18th century.
- Jews--Belarus--Shkloŭ--Intellectual life.
- Jews.
- Belarus--Shkloŭ.
- Sklov.
- Shkloŭ (Belarus)--Intellectual life.
- Shkloŭ (Belarus).
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- New York New York University Press 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its annexation by Tsarist Russia, this remote region was severed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; its 65,000 Jews were thus cut off from the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Forced into independence, these Jews set about forging a community with its own religious leadership and institutions. The three great intellectu
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: The Jews in the ""Land of Russia""; CHAPTER 1 The Great Divide: Hasidim and Mitnagdim; CHAPTER 2 From Byelorussia to Prussia: The Odyssey of Rabbi Barukh Schick; CHAPTER 3 New Social and Cultural Horizons; CHAPTER 4 Ideological and Literary Ferment; CHAPTER 5 Struggles for Emancipation; CHAPTER 6 Rabbinic Accommodation; CHAPTER 7 Decline and Dissolution; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-2886-3
- 0-585-34470-1
- OCLC:
- 47011782
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