Barricades and banners
Subtitle: the Revolution of 1905 and the transformation of Warsaw Jewry
By: Scott Ury
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763837
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Politics and government; Jewish nationalism; Jews; History
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : between past and present; title: Warsaw before 1905 : one city, many stories; title: Urbanization, community, and the crisis of modernity : Jewish society in turn-of-the-century Warsaw; title: Revolution, Jews, and the streets of Warsaw : between secret cells and popular politics; title: The rise of the Jewish public sphere : coffeehouses, theaters, and newspapers; title: From public sphere to public will : the elections to the Russian State Duma and the politicization of ethnicity; title: Democracy and its discontents : the image of the Jews and the transformation of Polish politics; title: Conclusion : politics, order, and the dialectics of Jewish modernity.