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The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world.
A substantial Jewish population appeared in Russia in the late 18th century, when parts of Poland (where a considerable number of Ashkenazi Jews now lived) and Crimea, where the Crimean Jews -...
The dominant narrative of Russian-Jewish history is one of repression, pogroms, state antisemitism and mass emigration. But this account obscures not only Russia’s centrality within Jewish history, but also the profound contributions of Jews to Russian culture and history.
The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. "
Anti-Jewish pogroms rocked the Russian Empire in 1881 –2, plunging both the Jewish community and the imperial authorities into crisis. Focusing on a wide range of responses to the pogroms, this book offers the most comprehensive, balanced, and complex study of the crisis to date.
Now back in print in a new edition!A Century of AmbivalenceThe Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the PresentSecond, Expanded EditionZvi GitelmanA ric...
awareness, but even more in their historical knowledge, the Jews of Russia before 1891 were hardly comparable to desert savages. Nor was the ordinary Orthodox Jew, who knew biblical history plus bits and pieces of post-biblical history, a primitive. Popular history began with the Haskalah.8 Historical
