Russia's First Modern Jews
Author | : David E. Fishman |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1995 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780814726143 |
ISBN-13 | : 0814726143 |
Rating | : 4/5 (143 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Russia's First Modern Jews by : David E. Fishman
Download or read book Russia's First Modern Jews written by David E. Fishman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the Jewish community in the region they called medinat rusiya, "the land of Russia," a region severed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and absorbed by Tsarist Russia in 1772, now in eastern Byelorussia. Fishman focuses on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR