Format:
1 online resource (389 pages)
ISBN:
9780804793032
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Content:
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 institutions. Most importantly, the self-named "folkists" believed that Jewish national aspirations could be fulfilled through Jewish autonomy in Russia and Eastern Europe more broadly. Ideologically and organizationally, this party's leadership would profoundly influence the course of Russian Jewish politics. Jewish Rights, National Rights provides a completely new interpretation of the origins of Jewish nationalism in Russia. It argues that Jewish nationalism, and Jewish politics generally, developed in a changing legal environment where the idea that nations had rights was beginning to take hold, and centered on the demand for Jewish autonomy in Eastern Europe. Drawing on numerous archives and libraries in the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Israel, Simon Rabinovitch carefully reconstructs the political movement for Jewish autonomy, its personalities, institutions, and cultural projects. He explains how Jewish autonomy was realized following the February Revolution of 1917, and for the first time assesses voting patterns in November 1917 to determine the extent of public support for Jewish nationalism at the height of the Russian revolutionary period.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- A Note on Transliterations and Dates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Jewish Autonomy Imagined and Remembered -- 2. Jewish Autonomy and Europe's Changing Legal Landscape -- 3. Revolution, Nationality Politics, and the Legal Claim to Jewish Autonomy, 1905-7 -- 4. Jewish Culture and Autonomy in Reform and Retrenchment, 1907-14 -- 5. Jewish Refugees, Autonomy, and Transnational Politics During World War I, 1914-17 -- 6. The Jewish Autonomist Movement and the Revolutions of 1917 -- 7. Independent States and Unfulfilled Expectations -- Conclusion: The Fate of Jewish Autonomism -- Notes -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804792493
Additional Edition:
Print version Jewish rights, national rites
Additional Edition:
Rabinovitch, Simon Jewish rights, national rites Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 9780804792493
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Russland
;
Judentum
;
Nationalismus
;
Autonomie
;
Geschichte 1905-1917
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