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"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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880
• Author: Mordechai Nadav
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 656
• EAN: 9780804741590
• ISBN: 080474159X
• ID: 05135844
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 993 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 39 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. November 2007

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