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The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mordechai Nadav
Creators: Mark Mirsky, Moshe Rosman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $75.00
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Sales Rank: 209951
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 656
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 080474159X
Dewey Decimal Number: 947.89
EAN: 9780804741590
ASIN: 080474159X
Publication Date: November 20, 2007
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Product Description
The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 is the first part of a major scholarly project about a small city in Eastern Europe where Jews were a majority of the population from the end of the eighteenth century. Pinsk boasted both traditional rabbinic scholars and famous Hasidic figures, and over time became an international trade emporium, a center of the Jewish Enlightenment, a cradle of Zionism and the Jewish Labor movement, and a place where Orthodoxy struggled vigorously with modernity.
The two volumes of Pinsk history were originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that flourished for half a millennium. In this case, the results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Europe has been described in such fascinating detail, invaluable to Jewish and non-Jewish historians alike.
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