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Russia's first modern Jews : the Jews of Shklov /
Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its annexation by Tsarist Russia, this remot...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1995.
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| Colección: | Reappraisals in Jewish social and intellectual history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya, the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its annexation by Tsarist Russia, this remote region was severed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; its 65,000 Jews were thus cut off from the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Forced into independence, these Jews set about forging a community with its own religious leadership and institutions. The three great intellectu. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585344701 9780585344706 9780814728864 0814728863 |