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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452590003321

Autore

Ury Scott

Titolo

Barricades and banners [[electronic resource] ] : the Revolution of 1905 and the transformation of Warsaw jewry / / Scott Ury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8104-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in jewish history and culture

Disciplina

305.892/4043841

305.8924043841

Soggetti

Jews - Poland - Warsaw

Electronic books.

Russia History Revolution, 1905-1907

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Naming, Dating, Placing, and Other Methodological Dilemmas -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Between Past and Present -- One. Warsaw before 1905 -- Two. Urbanization, Community, and the Crisis of Modernity -- Three. Revolution, Jews, and the Streets of Warsaw -- Four. The Rise of the Jewish Public Sphere -- Five. From Public Sphere to Public Will -- Six. Democracy and Its Discontents -- Conclusion. Politics, Order, and the Dialectics of Jewish Modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century.