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The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 / Israel Bartal ; translated by Chaya Naor

Author
Barṭal, Yiśraʼel
Uniform Title
Me-"umah" li-"leʼom". English
Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
vi, 203 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

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Language Note
Translated from the Hebrew.
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.
Summary
"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 territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence and the imposition in Russia of strong anti-Semitic legislation. In the years between, a traditional society accustomed to an autonomous way of life would be transformed into one much more open to its surrounding cultures, yet much more confident of its own nationalist identity.
In The Jews of Eastern Europe, Israel Bartal traces this transformation and finds in it the roots of Jewish modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
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ISBN
0812238877 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812238877 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780812219074 (pbk)
0812219074 (pbk)
Note
תרגום של: מאומה ללאום.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-194) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Edward J. and Eleanor Black Nichols Library Endowment Fund; 2013
Endowment Note
Edward J. and Eleanor Black Nichols Library Endowment Fund
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