The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (210 pages)
- Jewish Culture and Contexts Series .
- Jewish Culture and Contexts Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Jews of the Kingdom -- Chapter 2. The Partitions of Poland: The End of the Old Order, 1772-1795 -- Chapter 3. Towns and Cities: Society and Economy, 1795-1863 -- Chapter 4. Hasidim, Mitnagdim, and Maskilim -- Chapter 5. Russia and the Jews -- Chapter 6. Austria and the Jews of Galicia, 1772-1848 -- Chapter 7. "Brotherhood" and Disillusionment: Jews and Poles in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 8. "My Heart Is in the West": The Haskalah Movement in Eastern Europe -- Chapter 9. "The Days of Springtime": Czar Alexander II and the Era of Reform -- Chapter 10. Between Two Extremes: Radicalism and Orthodoxy -- Chapter 11. The Conservative Alliance: Galicia under Emperor Franz Josef -- Chapter 12. "The Jew Is Coming!" Anti-Semitism from Right and from Left -- Chapter 13. "Storms in the South," 1881-1882 -- Conclusion: Jews as an Ethnic Minority in Eastern Europe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
"A remarkable achievement. Bartal presents the broad contours of nineteenth-century East European Jewish history even as he reworks them into a nontraditional narrative."--David Engel, New York University.