| The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880 Contributor(s): Nadav, Mordechai (Author), Mirsky, Mark (Editor), Rosman, Moshe (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080474159X ISBN-13: 9780804741590 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2007 Annotation: The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 is the first part of a major scholarly project about a small city in Eastern Europe where Jews were a majority of the population from the end of the eighteenth century. Pinsk boasted both traditional rabbinic scholars and famous Hasidic figures, and over time became an international trade emporium, a center of the Jewish Enlightenment, a cradle of Zionism and the Jewish Labor movement, and a place where Orthodoxy struggled vigorously with modernity. The two volumes of Pinsk history were originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that flourished for half a millennium. In this case, the results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Europe has been described in such fascinating detail, invaluable to Jewish and non-Jewish historians alike. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 947.89 |
| LCCN: 2007006903 |
| Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History & Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.55" H x 6.4" W x 8.99" (2.19 lbs) 656 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Russia |
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| Publisher Description: The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 is the first part of a major scholarly project about a small city in Eastern Europe where Jews were a majority of the population from the end of the eighteenth century. Pinsk boasted both traditional rabbinic scholars and famous Hasidic figures, and over time became an international trade emporium, a center of the Jewish Enlightenment, a cradle of Zionism and the Jewish Labor movement, and a place where Orthodoxy struggled vigorously with modernity. The two volumes of Pinsk history were originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that flourished for half a millennium. In this case, the results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Europe has been described in such fascinating detail, invaluable to Jewish and non-Jewish historians alike. For the second volume of this two-volume collection, see The Jews of Pinsk, 1881-1941. |