The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 /

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 ter...

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Main Author: Barṭal, Yiśraʼel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
Series:Jewish culture and contexts.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The Jews of the kingdom
  • The partitions of Poland: the end of the old order, 1772-1795
  • Towns and cities: society and economy, 1795-1863
  • Hasidim, mitnagdim, and maskilim
  • Russia and the Jews
  • Austria and the Jews of Galicia, 1772-1848
  • "Brotherhood" and disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the nineteenth century
  • "My heart is in the West" : The Haskalah movement in Eastern Europe
  • "The days of springtime": Czar Alexander II and the era of reform
  • Between two extremes: radicalism and orthodoxy
  • The conservative alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef
  • "The Jew is coming!" Anti-semitism from right and from left
  • "Storms in the South," 1881-1882
  • Conclusion: Jews as an ethnic minority in Eastern Europe.