1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453315403321

Titolo

Everyday Jewish life in imperial Russia : select documents 1772-1914 / / edited by ChaeRan Y. Freeze and Jay M. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Massachusetts : , : Brandeis University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-61168-455-2

1-61168-456-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (665 p.)

Collana

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Altri autori (Persone)

FreezeChaeRan Y

HarrisJay Michael <1956->

Disciplina

947/.004924

Soggetti

Jews - Russia - Social life and customs

Electronic books.

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

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Imperial Context""; ""I | Religious Life""; ""The Diversity of Religious Experience""; ""1 | The Cantor of Duvid Twersky's Hasidic Court in Talenoe: The Memoirs of Pinhas Minkovsky""; ""2 | Secret State Reports on the Twersky Tsaddikimin Kiev and Volhynia Provinces (1861-68)""; ""3 | The Vurke Hasidic Court in Otwock:The Memoirs of Ita Kalish""; ""4 | Yehoshua Heschel Levine's The Ascents of Eliyahu (Gaon of Vilena)""

""5 | Memoirs of R. Elijah ben Benjamin Rabinowitz Teomim, the Aderet (1845-1905)""""6 | Tkhines [Supplicatory Prayers] for Women""; ""7 | The Cantor of Poltava Choral Synagogue: The Memoirs of Genrikh Sliozberg""; ""8 | The Cantor of Vilena and Cantorial Competitions: The Memoirs of Avraam Uri Kovner""; ""Religious Dilemmas and Jewish Law""; ""9 | Yehudah Leib Gordon,The Mouth That Forbade Was the Mouth That Allowed""; ""10 | Responsum of R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin of Volozhin: Oaths""; ""11 | Responsum of R. Yitzhak Elhanan Spektor: Etrogim""

""12 | Responsum of R. Yitzhak Elhanan Spektor: Hametz""""13 | Responsum of R. Yitzhak Elhanan Spektor: Share of Books in the Study



Hall""; ""14 | Responsum of R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin of Volozhin: Counting a Minor in a Minyan""; ""15 | Responsum of R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin of Volozhin: A Separate Study Hall and Synagogue""; ""Conversion to Christianity""; ""16 | Petitions for Conversion""; ""17 | Missionary Activities to Convert Jews in Lokhvits (1903)""

""18 | Jewish-Peasant Conflicts in Stepashek Following the Conversion of Anastasiia Lerman (Shimanskaia) and Her Marriage to a Peasant (1901)""""19 | Disorders Following the Secret Conversion of Gitlia Korn in Lublin (1904)""; ""20 | Apostasy: Reconversion from Christianity to Judaism""; ""21 | Responsum of Hayim Ozer Grodzinski: On Converts in America""; ""Jews and the State on Religious Matters""; ""22 | State Rabbis""; ""23 | Synagogues and Cemeteries""; ""24 | Petitions to the Governor of Kiev Province about High Holiday Services (1907-13)""

""25 | Trial of Girsh Sagalevich for Insulting the Russian Orthodox Faith in Vilena (1869)""""II | Family Life""; ""Parents and Children""; ""26 | Kvitlakh Addressed to an Unknown Rabbi in Vilena (1839)""; ""27 | Metrical Book Registration of Births by the State Rabbi (1906)""; ""28 | A Jewish Boyhood in Odessa: Memoirs of Lazar B. Goldenberg (b. circa 1845)""; ""29 | A Jewish Girlhood in Moscow in the 1870's and 1880's: The Memoirs of Roza Vinaver""; ""30 | Petition of Khaia Saetovaia for Material Support from Children (1846)""

""31 | Trial of Mordukh Eliashberg of Vilna for Rebellion against Parental Authority (1859)""

Sommario/riassunto

This book makes accessible-for the first time in English-declassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untranslated memoirs, illuminating everyday Jewish life as the site of interaction and negotiation among and between neighbors, society, and the Russian state, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to World War I. Focusing on religion, family, health, sexuality, work, and politics, these documents provide an intimate portrait of the rich diversity of Jewish life. By personalizing collective experience through individual life stories



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780979703321

Autore

Tyler-McGraw Marie

Titolo

An African republic [[electronic resource] ] : Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / / Marie Tyler-McGraw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8078-6778-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Classificazione

15.80

Disciplina

966.62/004960730767

Soggetti

African Americans - Colonization - Liberia

African Americans - Virginia - History - 19th century

Free African Americans - Virginia - History - 19th century

White people - Virginia - History - 19th century

Liberia History To 1847

Liberia History 1847-1944

Liberia Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Virginia Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Virginia Race relations History 19th century

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 (p. [227]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A small frisson of fear, soon soothed -- The alchemy of colonization -- Auxiliary arms - Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia -- My old mistress promise me -- Revising the future in Virginia -- Virginians in Liberia -- Liberians in Africa and America -- Civil War to white city.

Sommario/riassunto

The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia, where white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership and black Virginians provided a majority of the emigrants.In An African Republic, Marie Tyler-McG