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Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881 » (New Edition)

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Authors: John Doyle Klier
ISBN-13: 9780521023818, ISBN-10: 0521023815
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 2005
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: John Doyle Klier

Book Synopsis

John Klier examines Russian public opinion on the 'Jewish Question' in the Russian Empire.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction1
Pt. 1The era of the Great Reforms13
1Moshkas and Ioshkas32
2The Illiustratsiia Affair of 185851
3Defining terms66
4Rassvet and the future of Judaism84
5Sion and the problem of nationality102
6The religious element in Russian Judeophobia123
Pt. 2The era of Russification145
7Russification in the Northwest159
8"Kiev is Russian"182
9"Kiev is Ukrainian"204
10Education and Russification222
11Partisans of enlightenment: The OPE245
12"A state within a state"263
Pt. 3The era of social change and economic turmoil285
13The theme of "Jewish exploitation"300
14Dead souls: Jews and the military reform of 1874332
15The dilemma of the Russian Jewish intelligentsia350
16The riddle of liberal Judeophobia370
17The crystallization of conservative Judeophobia384
18The occult element in Russian Judeophobia417
Conclusion450
Abbreviations456
Notes457
Bibliography501
Index525

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