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The Jewish Dark Continent : Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement /

At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world's Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Si...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Deutsch, Nathaniel (Autor), An-Ski, S (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Map
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I
  • 1. EXPLORING THE JEWISH DARK CONTINENT
  • 2. THE REBBE AS ETHNOGRAPHER/ THE ETHNOGRAPHER AS REBBE
  • 3. A TOTAL ACCOUNT: WRITING DOWN THE PEOPLE'S TORAH
  • 4. THE BOOK OF MAN
  • II
  • PREFACE TO THE ANNOTATED TRANSLATION
  • THE JEWISH ETHNOGRAPHIC PROGRAM
  • AFTERWORD
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX