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Author Rabinovitch, Simon, author.

Title Jewish rights, national rites : nationalism and autonomy in late imperial and revolutionary Russia / Simon Rabinovitch
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages)
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents Jewish autonomy imagined and remembered -- Jewish autonomy and Europe's changing legal landscape -- Revolution, nationality politics, and the legal claim to Jewish autonomy, 1905/7 -- Jewish culture and autonomy in reform and retrenchment, 1907/14 -- Jewish refugees, autonomy, and transnational politics in World War I, 1914/17 -- The Jewish autonomist movement and the revolutions of 1917 -- Independent states and unfulfilled expectations -- Conclusion : the fate of Jewish autonomism
Summary In its full-color poster for elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress in 1917, the Jewish People's Party depicted a variety of Jews in seeking to enlist the support of the broadest possible segment of Russia's Jewish population. It forsook neither traditional religious and economic life like the Jewish socialist parties, nor life in Europe like the Zionists. It embraced Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian as fulfilling different roles in Jewish life. It sought the democratization of Jewish communal self-government and the creation of new Russian Jewish national-cultural and governmental instituti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jewish nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Russia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Jews -- Civil rights -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Jewish nationalism
Jews -- Civil rights
Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Jews -- Politics and government
Judentum
Nationalismus
Autonomie
SUBJECT Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125803
Subject Russia
Russland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804793032
0804793034