Beyond the Pale
Subtitle: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 45)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780520242326
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Jewish studies; Religion; History - General History; History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Former Soviet Republics; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Judaism - General; History / General
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.