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Russia's First Modern Jews
David E. Fishman
其他書名
The Jews of Shklov
出版
New York University Press
, 1995
主題
RELIGION / Judaism / History
ISBN
0814728863
9780814728864
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zh2ZDAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 intellectu.