ISBN:
9780253002983
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0253002982
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 382 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library
Series Statement:
The modern Jewish experience
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971- Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire
DDC:
305.892404709034
Keywords:
Jews Intellectual life
;
Russia
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Electronic books Russia
;
Russland
;
Juden
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Jews ; Intellectual life
;
Kultur
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Russia
;
Russland
;
Juden
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In the midst of the violent, revolutionary turmoil that accompanied the last decade of tsarist rule in the Russian Empire, many Jews came to reject what they regarded as the apocalyptic and utopian prophecies of political dreamers and religious fanatics, preferring instead to focus on the promotion of cultural development in the present. Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire examines the cultural identities that Jews were creating and disseminating through voluntary associations such as librari
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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