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Rare Russian-Jewish Publications from the Late 19th - Early 20th Century
In 1917, there were more Jews living in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. The Jewish population in Russia had grown from 1.6 million in 1820 to 5.6 million in 1910. Starting in the second half of the 19th century, the Jews in the Russian Empire were caught up in a major cultural and social transformation that constituted modernity for the Ashkenazi Jewries. This collection provides insights into such questions as: What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and modern? Should Jews acculturate, and if so, into which regional or European culture? Which language should Jews speak and teach their children? And what was the relationship between the elite and the popular, the Jewish and the Slavic, the literary and the historical research?
| Number of titles | 48 | | Number of microfiches | 678 |
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