Confessions of the Shtetl : Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906

Ellie R Schainker

ISBN 10: 0804798281 / ISBN 13: 9780804798280

Editore: Stanford University Press Nov 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe.

Codice articolo 9780804798280

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• Titolo: Confessions of the Shtetl : Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906
• Editore: Stanford University Press Nov 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804798281
• ISBN 13: 9780804798280
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 231 L x 155 A x 25 P (millimetri) 231 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 612 grammi

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Riassunto

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day world of these people, including the social, geographic, religious, and economic links among converts, Christians, and Jews. The book narrates converts' tales of love, desperation, and fear, tracing the uneasy contest between religious choice and collective Jewish identity in tsarist Russia. Rather than viewing the shtetl as the foundation myth for modern Jewish nationhood, this work reveals the shtetl's history of conversions and communal engagement with converts, which ultimately yielded a cultural hybridity that both challenged and fueled visions of Jewish separatism.

Drawing on extensive research with conversion files in imperial Russian archives, in addition to the mass press, novels, and memoirs, Ellie R. Schainker offers a sociocultural history of religious toleration and Jewish life that sees baptism not as the fundamental departure from Jewishness or the Jewish community, but as a conversion that marked the start of a complicated experiment with new forms of identity and belonging. Ultimately, she argues that the Jewish encounter with imperial Russia did not revolve around coercion and ghettoization but was a genuinely religious drama with a diverse, attractive, and aggressive Christianity.

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Ellie R. Schainker is the Arthur Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Ellie R. Schainker is the Arthur Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University.