Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917 - Drafted Into Modernity

This book examines the experience of the Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827 and 1917.

List of contents

1. The empire reforms. The community response; 2. Militarizing the Jew. Judaizing the military; 3. 'Let the children come to me': Jewish minors in the Cantonist battalions; 4. Universal draft and the singular Jews; 5. The Russian army's Jewish question; 6. The revolutionary draft; 7. Banished from modernity.

About the author

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern teaches early modern, modern and east European Jewish history and culture at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Anti-Imperial Choice: The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Jew (2009). He has also published about forty scholarly essays in journals such as East European Jewish Affairs, Jewish Social History, the Journal of Jewish History, Jewish Quarterly Review, AJS Review, POLIN, KRITIKA, Ab Imperio, and The Ukrainian Quarterly. He has been a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, a Rothschild Fellow in Jerusalem, a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, a Sensibar Visiting Professor at Spertus College in Chicago, a Visiting Scholar at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and a recipient of multiple fellowships and grants, including the National Endowment for Humanities.

Summary

This book is the first study of the social, cultural, and military experience of the Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827 and 1917. Petrovsky-Shtern explores how conscription integrated Jews into the state transforming the repressed Jewish victims of the draft into modern imperial Russian Jews.

Product details

• Authors: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan (Northwestern University Petrovsky-Shtern, Petrovsky-Shtern Yohanan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107682238
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68223-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Jewish Studies, Modern warfare, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Relating to Jewish people and groups, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Russia / Imperial