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Author Nathans, Benjamin.

Title Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia / Benjamin Nathans
Published Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Studies on the history of society and culture ; 45
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 45.
Contents LIST OF MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter; PART I. THE PROBLEM OF EMANCIPATION UNDER THE OLD REGIME; PART II. THE JEWS OF ST. PETERSBURG; PART III. JEWS, RUSSIANS, AND THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY; PART IV. IN THE COURT OF GENTILES; Conclusion The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively 'beyond the Pale' of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. This text reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter, using long-closed Russian archives and other sources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-402) and index
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Subject Jews -- Russia -- History -- 19th century
Jews -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Russia -- Cultural assimilations
HISTORY.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Ethnic relations
Jews
SUBJECT Russia -- Ethnic relations
Subject Russia
Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001003513
ISBN 9780520931299
0520931297