Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia Volume 45

by Benjamin Nathans

Book Overview

A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter.

In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms," Nathans writes, a policy of selective integration stimulated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242327
• ISBN13: 9780520242326
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"