Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

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Author(s)Benjamin Nathans
DescriptionA study of Jews living literally and figuratively "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in Tsarist Russia in the years prior to the Revolution of 1917. The writer, thanks to the now open Russian archives, reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms". He writes that a policy of selective integration stimulated social and geographic mobility among the Empire's Jews. However the reaction that culminated, toward the turn of the century, in ethnic restrictions on admission to universities, professions, and other institutions of civil society, reflected broad anxieties that Russians were being placed at a disadvantage in their own country. The writer's conclusions, during this formative period, will be of great interest to all students of modern Jewish and modern Russian history.
Publication Date29 April 2004
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Pages441
ISBN 139780520000000
ISBN 10520242327
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