Imperial Russia''s Jewish Question, 1855-1881

Klappentext John Klier examines Russian public opinion on the 'Jewish Question' in the Russian Empire. Zusammenfassung John Klier examines Russian public opinion on the 'Jewish Question' in the Russian Empire during a period of sweeping social and political reform. He studies the manner in which public opinion influenced! and was influenced by state policy towards the Jews! and traces the roots of modern antisemitism throughout Eastern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Era of the Great Reforms: 1. Moshkas and Ioshkas; 2. The Illustratsiia affair of 1858; 3. Defining terms; 4. Rassvet and the future of Judaism; 5. Sion and the problem of nationality; 6. The religious element in Russian Judeophobia; Part II. The Era of Russification: 7. Russification in the Northwest; 8. 'Kiev is Russian'; 9. 'Kiev is Ukrainian'; 10. Education and Russification; 11. Partisans of enlightenment: the ORPME; 12. 'A State within a State'; Part III. The Era of Social and Economic Change: 13. The theme of 'Jewish exploitation; 14. Dead souls: the military reform of 1874; 15. The dilemma of the Russian Jewish intelligentsia; 16. The riddle of liberal Judeophobia; 17. The crystallization of conservative Judeophobia; 18. The occult element in Russian Judeophobia.

Product details

• Authors: John Doyle Klier, John Doyle (University College London) Klier
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521023818
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02381-8
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous