Confessions of the Shtetl - Converts From Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906

Zusatztext "[This] rich study combines a sophisticated understanding of religion with a careful study of recent scholarship in many subfields of Jewish studies and Russian history and archival materials to tell the story of an important but overlooked chapter in the history of Russian Jewry in the nineteenth century." Informationen zum Autor Ellie R. Schainker is the Arthur Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University. Klappentext Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe. Zusammenfassung Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Converts and Confessions 1. The Genesis of Confessional Choice 2. The Missionizing Marketplace 3. Shtetls, Taverns, and Baptism 4. From Vodka to Violence 5. Relapsed Converts and Tales of Marranism 6. Jewish-Christian Sects in Southern Russia Epilogue: Converts on the Cultural Map

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• Authors: Ellie Schainker, Ellie R Schainker, Ellie R. Schainker
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780804798280
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9828-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous