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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813789303321

Autore

Rabinovitch Simon

Titolo

Jewish rights, national rites : nationalism and autonomy in late imperial and revolutionary Russia / / Simon Rabinovitch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9303-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Disciplina

320.540956940947/09021

Soggetti

Jewish nationalism - Russia - History - 20th century

Jews - Russia - Politics and government - 20th century

Jews - Civil rights - Russia - History - 20th century

Jews - Legal status, laws, etc - Russia - History - 20th century

Russia History Nicholas II, 1894-1917

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note on Transliterations and Dates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Jewish Autonomy Imagined and Remembered; 2. Jewish Autonomy and Europe's Changing Legal Landscape; 3. Revolution, Nationality Politics, and the Legal Claim to Jewish Autonomy, 1905-7; 4. Jewish Culture and Autonomy in Reform and Retrenchment, 1907-14; 5. Jewish Refugees, Autonomy, and Transnational Politics During World War I, 1914-17; 6. The Jewish Autonomist Movement and the Revolutions of 1917; 7. Independent States and Unfulfilled Expectations; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<div>In its full-color poster for elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress in 1917, the Jewish People's Party depicted a variety of Jews in seeking to enlist the support of the broadest possible segment of Russia's Jewish population. It forsook neither traditional religious and economic life like the Jewish socialist parties, nor life in Europe like the Zionists. It embraced Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian as fulfilling different roles in Jewish life. It sought the democratization of Jewish communal self-government and the creation of new Russian Jewish national-cultural and governmental inst