Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1825-1914, Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1825-1914, Introduction write by ChaeRan Y. Freeze. This book was released on 2012. Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1825-1914, Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia write by ChaeRan Y. Freeze. This book was released on 2013-12-03. Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among and between neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life storiesÑreflecting not only the typical but also the extraordinaryÑthe sources reveal the tensions and ruptures in a vanished society. An introductory survey of Russian Jewish history from the Polish partitions (1772Ð1795) to World War I combines with prefatory remarks, textual annotations, and a bibliography of suggested readings to provide a new perspective on the history of the Jews of Russia.
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia
Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia write by ChaeRan Y. Freeze. This book was released on 2013-12-03. Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An astounding compilation of primary source documents dealing with all aspects of Jewish daily life in the Russian empire
Confessions of the Shtetl
Confessions of the Shtetl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confessions of the Shtetl write by Ellie R. Schainker. This book was released on 2016-11-16. Confessions of the Shtetl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates converts' tales of love, desperation, and fear, tracing the uneasy contest between religious choice and collective Jewish identity in tsarist Russia. Rather than viewing the shtetl as the foundation myth for modern Jewish nationhood, this work reveals the shtetl's history of conversions and communal engagement with converts, which ultimately yielded a cultural hybridity that both challenged and fueled visions of Jewish separatism. Drawing on extensive research with conversion files in imperial Russian archives, in addition to the mass press, novels, and memoirs, Ellie R. Schainker offers a sociocultural history of religious toleration and Jewish life that sees baptism not as the fundamental departure from Jewishness or the Jewish community, but as a conversion that marked the start of a complicated experiment with new forms of identity and belonging. Ultimately, she argues that the Jewish encounter with imperial Russia did not revolve around coercion and ghettoization but was a genuinely religious drama with a diverse, attractive, and aggressive Christianity.
A Jewish Woman of Distinction
A Jewish Woman of Distinction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Jewish Woman of Distinction write by ChaeRan Y. Freeze. This book was released on 2019. A Jewish Woman of Distinction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad lines in Imperial Russia. For more than seventy-five years, Poliakova kept detailed diaries of her world, giving us a rare look into the exclusive world of Jewish elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society through their intimate friendships and patronage of the arts and philanthropy. And they did it all without converting--in fact, while staunchly demonstrating their Jewishness. Poliakova's life was marked by her dual identity as a Russian and a Jew. She cultivated aristocratic sensibilities and lived an extraordinarily lifestyle, and yet she was limited by the confessional laws of the empire and religious laws that governed her household. She brought her Russian tastes, habits, and sociability to France following her marriage to Reuben Gubbay (the grandson of Sir Albert Abdullah Sassoon). And she had to face the loss of almost all her family members and friends during the Holocaust. Women's voices are often lost in the sweep of history, and so A Jewish Women of Distinction is an exceptional, much-needed collection. These newly discovered primary sources will change the way we understand the full breadth of the Russian Jewish experience.
