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. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives; along with a wide range of other sources; Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter.In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms;" Nathans writes; a policy of selective integration stimulated social and geographic mobility among the empire's Jews. The reaction that culminated; toward the turn of the century; in ethnic restrictions on admission to universities; the professions; and other institutions of civil society reflected broad anxieties that Russians were being placed at a disadvantage in their own empire. Nathans's conclusions about the effects of selective integration and the Russian-Jewish encounter during this formative period will be of great interest to all students of modern Jewish and modern Russian history.
#2169841 in Books 2001-06-04Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x 1.00 x 5.98l; 1.55 #File Name: 0520225902360 pages
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