Hist Of Jews Eastrn Eurp 1772-1939

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A survey of the social, political, religious, and intellectual history of the Jews in Russia and Poland from the partitions of Poland to the Russian Revolution. Topics include: the legacy of the Polish commonwealth; Hasidism and traditional Jewish society; Jews in Russia, Galicia, Congress Poland and Posen; Alexander II, the great reforms and the flourishing of Haskalah; emancipation in Poland, Austria and Prussia; social and economic transformations; the rise of Jewish nationalism; socialist, autonomist, and revolutionary ideologies; beginnings of migration; Hebrew and Yiddish literature; traditional Jewish life and the emergence of an orthodoxy; constitution, war, and revolution.