Beyond the Pale
Subtitle: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780520208308
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; Saint Petersburg; Judaism - General; History: World; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / General; Cultural assimilation; Russia (Federation); Jewish - General; 19th century; History; Jews
First sentence: At the dawn of the twentieth century, when Jewish emancipation had swept from west to east across nearly the entire European continent, Russia alone among the major European states maintained a regime of legal disabilities specifically aimed at its Jewish population.