Beyond the pale : the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia / / Benjamin Nathans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815445303321
• Autore: Nathans Benjamin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002
• ISBN: 1-282-75930-2; 9786612759307; 0-520-93129-7; 1-59734-493-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Collana: Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 45
• Disciplina: 947/.004924
• Soggetti: Jews - Russia - History - 19th century; Jews - Russia (Federation) - Saint Petersburg - History - 20th century; Jews - Cultural assimilation - Russia; Russia Ethnic relations
• 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: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter -- Part One. The Problem of Emancipation under the Old Regime -- Part Two. The Jews of St. Petersburg -- Part Three. Jews, Russians, and the Imperial University -- Part Four. In the Court of Gentiles -- Conclusion. The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter.In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms," Nathans writes, a policy of selective integration stimulated social and geographic mobility among the empire's Jews. The reaction that culminated, toward the turn of the century, in ethnic restrictions on admission to universities, the professions, and other institutions of civil society reflected broad ; anxieties that Russians were being placed at a disadvantage in their own empire. Nathans's conclusions about the effects of selective integration and the Russian-Jewish encounter during this formative period will be of great interest to all students of modern Jewish and modern Russian history.