"A succinct and well-researched study. Essential."
--"Choice"
"An important contribution to the history of Russian Jewry, the
Haskalah, and traditional Jewish society. I heartily recommend
it."
--Michael Stanislawski, Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish
History, Columbia University
Long before there were Jewish communities in the land of the
tsars, Jews inhabited a region which they called medinat rusiya,
the land of Russia. Prior to its annexation by Russia, the land of
Russia was not a center of rabbinic culture. But in 1772, with its
annexation by Tsarist Russia, this remote region was severed from
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; its 65,000 Jews were thus cut
off from the heartland of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. Forced
into independence, these Jews set about forging a community with
its own religious leadership and institutions.
The three great intellectual currents in East European
Jewry--Hasidism, Rabbinic Mitnagdism, and Haskalah--all converged
on Eastern Belorussia, where they clashed and competed. In the
course of a generation, the community of Shklov--the most prominent
of the towns in the area--witnessed an explosion of intellectual
and cultural activity.
Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants,
maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism
and European culture, David Fishman here chronicles the remarkable
story of these first modern Jews of Russia.
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