This is the first part of a major scholarly project about a small city in Eastern Europe where Jews were the 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 who were determined to ... More
Keywords: Eastern Europe, Jews, Holocaust, Pinsk, rabbinic scholars, Orthodoxy, international trade, Jewish Enlightenment, Zionism, Jewish Labor movement
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780804741590 |
| Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804741590.001.0001 |
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