The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880 Hardback
by Mordechai Nadav
Edited by Mark Mirsky, Moshe Rosman
Part of the Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture series
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The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 is the first part of a major scholarly project about a small city in Eastern Europe where Jews were a majority of the population from the end of the eighteenth century.
Pinsk boasted both traditional rabbinic scholars and famous Hasidic figures, and over time became an international trade emporium, a center of the Jewish Enlightenment, a cradle of Zionism and the Jewish Labor movement, and a place where Orthodoxy struggled vigorously with modernity. The two volumes of Pinsk history were originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that flourished for half a millennium.
In this case, the results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Europe has been described in such fascinating detail, invaluable to Jewish and non-Jewish historians alike. For the second volume of this two-volume collection, see The Jews of Pinsk, 1881-1941.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:20/11/2007
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- ISBN:9780804741590
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:656 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:20/11/2007
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- ISBN:9780804741590
