Russian Jews. Times and Events

Over the past twenty years, there are many books and articles about the Jews of the Russian empire, based on archival documents previously unavailable. This book - a popular scientific account of the history of Russian Jews from their first appearances in different territories, which later became part of the Russian Empire. Book of this kind was first published in Russian: it uses the latest research of historians and archival sources. Jewish fate of different ages on the background of historical events - an indispensable component of this book.

Table of Contents

PART ONE (until the second half of the eighteenth century)
 
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Who we are. How to call themselves. How to call us others. When they came to this land
 
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Khazars. Khazars. Adoption of Judaism. The rise and fall of the Khazars

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Khazars and Slavs. Jews and Kievan Rus. Mongol invasion

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Jews of Central Europe. The Crusades. Ritual slander. Pogroms, murder and exile. Resettlement to the east


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First appearance of the Jews in Poland. Benefits of Boleslaw the Pious. Persecution since "Black Death." Resettlement of Jews in Poland and Lithuania

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Benefits of Casimir the Great. Expulsion from Lithuania.
The anti-Jewish propaganda and the first anti-Semitic literature. Charges of desecrating the holy Host

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Novgorod "heresy of the Judaizers." Judaizers at the court of Ivan III. Their teaching. Penalty main heretics. Ivan the Terrible and the Jews
 
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Jewish self-government in Poland and Lithuania. Kahal. Vaad. Courts. Religious authorities of the Polish Jews
 
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Schooling in Poland and Lithuania. Hedera and yeshiva.
The wedding ceremony and family life. Religious and charitable fraternity

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Jews in the Ukraine. Horror times Khmelnytsky. The war between Russia and Poland. Polish uprising against the Swedes and the destruction of the Jewish communities. Starting relocation to the West

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Hopes for a liberator. Coming of the Messiah. Sabbatai Zevi - false messiah. Faith in him. Predmessianskie cooking. Daylight Sabbatai Zevi to Islam

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Sabbatianskie sect in Podolia and Galicia. Jacob Frank and movement "Francoism." Franco disputes with the rabbis and the burning of the Talmud. Franco transition to Catholicism. Eva Frank and the end of the "Franco"

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Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. Childhood. Years of solitude and contemplation. Baal Shem Tov - healer, righteous, holy man. Foundations of his teachings
 
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The Jews of Poland and Lithuania after hmelnichiny. Restrictive laws of the church. Ritual slander. Haidamaks uprising. Koliivschina and Uman Massacre
 
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Sporadic appearance of Jews in the Russian state. Troubled times. Reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. Peter I and the Jews. Case Voznitsyn. Doctor António Ribeiro Sanshes

PART TWO (1772-1881 years)

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Jews of Central and Western Europe in the mid-eighteenth century. Partitions of Poland. The reign of Catherine II and the introduction of the Pale of Settlement

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"Opinion" Senator Derzhavin. Jewish Committee under Alexander I. Eviction from villages. Jewish agricultural colonies

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Successor to the Baal Shem Tov - Rabbi Dov Ber. The spread of Hasidism. Vilna Gaon and the beginning of the struggle with the Hasidim
 
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Fighting Hasidim. Founder of the "Chabad" Rabbi Schneur Zalman. His arrest and release
 
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The French Revolution and its impact on European Jews. Duchy of Warsaw. The Jews of Russia and the War of 1812
 
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Restrictive laws after 1812. Kingdom of Poland. Member of the secret society Gregory Peretz
 
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Pogrom in Odessa. Ritual and Velizh libel case. Transfer of remains to the Jewish cemetery in Brest

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Starting "Haskalah" the Russian Jews. The traditional system of education: header and yeshiva. Rav Chaim of Volozhin. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
 
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The reign of Nicholas I. Introduction of conscription for the Jews. Children cantonists. Forced baptism. Service in the army of Nicholas

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The Jewish community of St. Petersburg, Kiev and Moscow. The fight against the traditional Jewish clothing. Introduction treasury of Jewish schools. Resettlement in Siberia and the New Russia.
The arrival of M. Montefiore

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New ritual libel. "Mstislav riot." Town Kapyl Minsk province

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Poverty of the Jewish population of the Russian Empire. The spiritual life of communities. Rav Yisrael Salanter and his teachings
 
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The era of "great reforms". Jewish role in the development of the Russian economy. The uprising in Poland. Jews in the Russian-Turkish war

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Desire for secular education. Attitude of Russian society towards the Jews. Jews in the revolutionary movement. The murder of Alexander II

PART THREE (1881-1900 years)

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The Jews of Europe by the end of the nineteenth century. The position of the Russian Jews. Incitement to violence. Pogroms in 1881.
Provincial Commission

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Pogrom in Balta. Introduction of the "Provisional Regulations".
Pogroms 1882-1884 gg. The collapse of the policy of "Russification"

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Emigration of Russian Jews. Starting palestinofilskogo movement. Leo Pinsker and his "Autoemancipation." Biluytsy
 
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The introduction of interest rules and eviction from villages. Expulsion from Moscow in 1891-1892 gg. New restrictive laws Alexander III

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The mass emigration of Russian Jews. Baron M. Hirsch and resettlement in Argentina. Settling Eretz Yisrael
 
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Way of life of the Jewish communities. Charity. Hedera, yeshivas and synagogues. The rabbis of the Pale. Cantors and klezmer
 
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Census 1897 Economic situation of Russian Jews. Participation in trade, industry and agriculture.
Wedding in the village of

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Jews in the interior provinces of the Russian Empire. Russian participation in the social, scientific and cultural life

PART FOUR (1901-1917 years)

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The reign of Nicholas II. Jews in the revolutionary movement. Fighting Organization SRs. "Provocateur virtuoso" Azev
 
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Education Bund. Herzl and the first Zionist Congress. Mayhem in Nikolaev. The anti-Jewish propaganda in Bessarabia

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Kishinev pogrom. Herzl in Russia. Sixth Zionist Congress and Plan Uganda

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Jews in the Russian-Japanese war. Pogroms of 1904-1905. "Troubles" time. The October 1905 riots

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Formation of the Union of the Russian people. First Duma and the pogrom in Bialystok. Second Duma. The exodus of Jews from Russia

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"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"

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Third Duma. The use of restrictive laws. Fourth Duma. Kill P. Stolypin
 
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New restrictive measures. Jewish community organizations. Poets and writers. Publication of books and newspapers. Participation in the Russian culture
 
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Menachem Mendel Beilis case

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The First World War. Mass expulsion of the Jews. The February Revolution

ESSAY - APPENDIX.
Jews of Crimea
Jews of the Caucasus
Jews of Central Asia
Jews of Siberia
Judaizing

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