Book details: RUSSIA'S FIRST MODERN JEWS: THE JEWS OF SHKLOV
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Fishman, David E.
RUSSIA'S FIRST MODERN JEWS: THE JEWS OF SHKLOV
Imprint: New York; New York University Press, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Publishers cloth. 8vo. Xiii, 195 pages. 24 cm. Illustrated. First edition. Inscribed by author on front free end page. Four leaves of black and white photographs, as well as reproductions of paintings and documents. “This book focuses on the social and intellectual odysseys of merchants, maskilim, and rabbis, and their varied attempts to combine Judaism and European culture. David Fishman here chronicles the remarkable story of these first modern Jews of Russia. ” (Dust jacket) Subjects: Jews -- Belarus -- Shklou -- Intellectual life. Haskalah -- Belarus -- Shklou -- History -- 18th century. Condition. (EE-6-4)
Stock number:32391.