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Summary:

"Populated by urbane Jewish merchants and professionals as well as new arrivals from the shtetl, imperial Kiev was acclaimed for its opportunities for education, culture, employment, and entrepreneurship but cursed for the often pitiless persecution of its Jews. Kiev, Jewish Metropolis limns the history of Kiev Jewry from the official readmission of Jews to the city in 1859 to the outbreak of World War I. It explores the Jewish community's politics, its leadership struggles, socioeconomic and demographic shifts, religious and cultural sensibilities, and relations with the city's Christian population. Drawing on archival documents, the local press, memoirs, and belles lettres, Natan M. Meir shows Kiev's Jews at work, at leisure, in the synagogue, and engaged in the activities of myriad Jewish organizations and philanthropies"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Settlement and growth, 1859-1881
• The foundations of communal life
• The consolidation of Jewish Kiev, 1881-1914
• Modern Jewish cultures and practices
• Jew as neighbor, Jew as other: interethnic relations and antisemitism
• Varieties of Jewish philanthropy
• Revolutions in communal life.

Author/Creator:

Meir, Natan M. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Kiev, Jewish metropolis: a history, 1859-1914 [by Meir, N.M.]

Related Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

Subjects:

Jews — Ukraine — Kyïv — History — 19th century

Jews — Ukraine — Kyïv — History — 20th century

Jews — Ukraine — Kyïv — Social conditions — 19th century

Jews — Ukraine — Kyïv — Social conditions — 20th century

Kyïv (Ukraine) — Ethnic relations

1800-1999

Jews — Social conditions

Ethnic relations

Jews

Ukraine — Kyïv

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Donated from the Rene and Jimmy Wisch Jewish Studies Collection.

Physical Description:

xii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

portrait; illustration; map

Call Numbers:

DS135.U42 K5453 2010

ISBNs:

9780253222077 (pbk., alk. paper)
0253222079 (pbk., alk. paper)
9780253355027 (cloth, alk. paper)
0253355028 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009049723

OCLC Numbers:

437301840