Beyond the Pale The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia

Name: Beyond the Pale The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia
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ISBN: 9780520242326

ISBN-10: 0520242327

ISBN-13: 9780520242326

Edition: 2002

Authors: Benjamin Nathans

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.540



List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter



The Problem of Emancipation Under the Old Regime



Jews and the Imperial Social Hierarchy



The Genesis of Selective Integration



The Jews of St. Petersburg



Language, Ethnicity, and Urban Space



Conflict and Community



The Geography of Jewish Politics



Jews, Russians, and the Imperial University



The University as Melting Pot?



A Silent Pogrom



In The Court of Gentiles



The Judicial Reform and Jewish Citizenship



Ethnicity and Civil Society: The Russian Legal Profession


Conclusion


The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective


Bibliography


Index