In the first monograph in scientific practice extensively studied the history of government censorship of Jewish books and periodicals (in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian) as well as the history of politics of autocracy against the Jewish press. The history of censorship of Jewish publications considered since it was established in Riga in 1797 and the end of February 1917 The focus of the author are not only problems of organization of this kind of censorship, its personal composition and daily activities, but also the laws of the views of the imperial government to the Jewish culture in general.
The book substantiates the notion of censorship as one of the most important policy instruments of autocracy in the Jewish question, given a fundamentally important periods of Jewish history of censorship of publications, widely covered by previously unknown pages of the history of Jewish printing business in Russia. The monograph is provided with a comprehensive list of censors of Jewish publications, documentary annexes, indexes of names referred to books, periodicals and selected writings.
This monograph is intended for researchers and students. It can also be useful to anyone interested in history and culture of Russian Jews and the national policy of the autocracy.
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