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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453315403321
• 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