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

by Nathaniel Deutsch and S An-Ski

Book Overview

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 Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish "Dark Continent."

Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An-sky...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674047281
• ISBN13: 9780674047280
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"