List Books » Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia
Authors: Eli Lederhendler
ISBN-13: 9780195058918, ISBN-10: 0195058917
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: July 1989
Edition: New Edition
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life. In the case of the Jews of Russia, the pogroms of 1881 have been regarded as the watershed event which triggered the political awakening of Jewish intellectuals. Here Lederhendler explores previously neglected antecedents to this turning point in the history of the Jewish people in the first scholarly work to examine concretely the transition of a Jewish community from traditional to post-traditional politics.