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. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this book chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.
Tells the stories of three Jewish activists, who at different times and different places refused to be victims any longer and by political assassination sought to gain world attention to the plight of their people. This book offers information on how the killings were carried out, the international response, and the reaction of Jews.
The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990
Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus ......
Using correspondence and other materials, Herczl recreates the Hungarian Christian church's actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. He provides a scathing indictment of the Church's lack of compassion toward - and even active persecution of - Hungary's Jews during World War II.
This study of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages sheds light on the origins of modernity, including Jewish-Gentile relations, the Jewish role in early capitalism, the beginnings of Haskala (Englightenment) and of Hasidism.
Judge's book is the best to date on the Kishinev pogrom of 1903. In seven gracefully written chapters, the author lays out the background of the Jewish question in Russia, profiles the city of Kishinev, narrates the events leading up to and included in the pogrom, and analyzes its causes and effects. -Choice A detailed re-examination of the ......
The fundamentals guiding labor historians are under scrutiny today as never before. The field has attempted to uncover the socioeconomic conditions that produced labor militancy and class consciousness, with scholars focusing on proletarianization---the loss of control over the production process---as the key to class conflict. Currently, this ......
This major study by Frederic Lane tracks the rise and decline of the great shipbuilding industry of Renaissance Venice. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Lane presents detailed descriptions of the Venetian arsenal, including the great galleys that doubled as cargo ships and warships; the sixteenth-century round ships, which introduced ......
