1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462139203321

Autore

Shoḥeṭ ʻAzriʼel

Titolo

The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941 [[electronic resource] /] / Azriel Shohet ; edited by Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman ; translated by Faigie Tropper and Moshe Rosman ; with an afterword by Zvi Gitelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8502-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (794 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MirskyMark

RosmanMurray Jay

TropperFaigie

Disciplina

305.892/404789

Soggetti

Jews - Belarus - Pinsk - History

Jews - Belarus - Pinsk - Social conditions

Jews - Belarus - Pinsk - Economic conditions

Jews - Education - Belarus - Pinsk - History

Electronic books.

Pinsk (Belarus) Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in Hebrew in 1977 under the title Toledot Kehillat Pinsk-Karlin: 1881-1941."

This is the second part of a major undertaking carried out by scholars in Israel to recover and narrate the history of the important Jewish community in Pinsk.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pinsk : 1881-1914 -- Political trends up to 1906 -- The Hebrew language movement in Pinsk -- Schooling, education, and culture : 1881-1914 -- Changes in lifestyle and culture : 1881-1914 -- Institutions, societies and associations for social welfare : 1881-1914 -- Suppression and reaction : 1906-1914 -- In the period of the First World War -- Interregnum (1918-1920) -- Between two wars -- The Second World War up to the Nazi occupation (September 16, 1939-July 4, 1941).

Sommario/riassunto

The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this



study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community. From the 1905 Russian revolution through World War One and the long prologue to the Holocaust, the sweep of world history and the fate of this dynamic center of Jewish life were intertwined. Pinsk's role in the bloody aftermath of World War One is still the subject of scholarly d