The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880

by Mordechai Nadav

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080474159X
• ISBN13: 9780804741590
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"