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Features three intellectual currents in East European Jewry - Hasidism, Rabbinic Mitnagdism, and Haskalah. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this title chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.

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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
A succinct and well-researched study. Essential. * Choice *

Russias First Modern Jews

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    A Paperback / softback by David E. Fishman, Yoichi Funabashi

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/1996
      ISBN13: 9780814726600, 978-0814726600
      ISBN10: 0814726607
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      Book Synopsis
      Features three intellectual currents in East European Jewry - Hasidism, Rabbinic Mitnagdism, and Haskalah. Focusing on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture, this title chronicles the story of these first modern Jews of Russia.

      Trade Review
      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
      A succinct and well-researched study. Essential. * Choice *

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