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"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 struggled vigorously with modernity. The two volumes of Pinsk history were originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that flourished for half a millennium. In this case, the results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Europe has been described in such fascinating detail, invaluable to Jewish and non-Jewish historians alike.Detailed info »« Brief info
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Publication Date: | 11/30/2007 |
| ISBN: | 9780804741590 |
| EAN: | 080474159X |
| Paperback: | 606 pages |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Info: | 6.40 x 1.55 x 8.99 inches, (2.19 lbs) |
| Categories: | Jewish - General | Europe - Former Soviet Republics |
| LC Subjects: | Jews, History |
| Dewey: | 947.89 |
| LCCN: | 2007006903 |