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Title

The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880 / Mordechai Nadav ; edited by Mark Jay Mirsky and Moshe Rosman ; translated by Moshe Rosman and Faigie Tropper.

Author

Nadav, Mordekhai.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Mirsky, Mark.
• Rosman, Murray Jay.

Description

xlviii, 606 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 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." "This is a translation into English of the first of two volumes of Pinsk history, originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that had flourished for half a millennium. The results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Europe has been described in such detail, invaluable to Jewish and non-Jewish historians alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Uniform Title

• Toldot ḳehilat Pinsḳ-Ḳarlin, 1506-1880. English
• Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.

Alternative Title

Toldot ḳehilat Pinsḳ-Ḳarlin, 1506-1880.

Subject

• Jews > Pinsk > History
• Jews > Lithuania > History
• Jews > Poland > History
• Pinsk (Belarus) > Ethnic relations

Note

• Translation of: Toledot ḳehilat Pinsḳ Ḳarlin; originally published: Jerusalem : Association of the Jews of Pinsk in Israel, 1973.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [585]-594) and index.

Contents

Preface: Pinsk: A Novelist in the Blottes / Mark Jay Mirsky -- Preface: Introduction to Pinsk Translation / Moshe Rosman -- Introduction / Mordechai Nadav -- The Political History of Pinsk up to the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- From Principality to Royal Domain -- 1. From the Founding of the Community Until the Union of Lublin (1506-1569) -- The Founding of the Community: The Basic Privilege of Pinsk Jewry -- The Jewish Quarter and the Direction of Its Expansion -- Population Growth Estimate Based on the 1552-1555 and 1561-1566 Lustracje -- Communal Organization -- The Basic Privilege -- Transition from Private Holding to Royal Domain -- Adjudication -- Taxes -- Economic Life During the Era of Prince Feodor -- 2. From the Union of Lublin Until the 1648-1649 Chmielnicki Persecutions (1569-1648) -- Development of the Community: Population Growth -- Legal Status: General Privileges -- Economic Life -- The Kahal Organization: The Structure and Competence of the Kahal -- 3. From the Chmielnicki Persecutions of 1648-1649 Until the Peace of Andruszow -- The 1648-1649 Persecutions in Pinsk -- The Jews of Pinsk During the 1648-1649 Persecutions -- Renewal and Rehabilitation of Communal Life: Continuity of the Activities of the Kahal Leadership -- Pinsk During the Polish-Muscovite War (1655-1659) -- 1660 -- 1660-1667: Polish Rule Restored -- The Life of the Jews of Pinsk in the 1660s: Demographic Changes -- 4. From the Peace of Andruszow Until the Conquest of Pinsk by the Swedes (1667-1706) -- The Development of the Jewish Community: Demographic Growth and Geographic Expansion -- Moneylending -- Organization of the Kahal -- Pinsk as a Chief Community and the Dispute Between the Chief Communities -- Internal Life -- The Rabbis of Pinsk -- Summary: The Pinsk Jewish Community's First Two Hundred Years -- 5. From the Conquest of Pinsk by the Swedes Until the Second Partition of Poland (1706-1793) -- The Jews of Pinsk at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century -- Population Growth -- Debts -- Economic Life -- Taxes, Income, and Expenditures of the Kahal -- Pinsk and Karlin - Hasidim and Mitnaggedim -- 6. From the Russian Annexation of Pinsk Until Tsar Alexander III and the Bilu Movement (1793-1880) -- Rabbi Avigdor's Battle with the Hasidim of Pinsk and Lithuania -- Rabbi Avigdor's Renewed Battle with the Hasidim and the Kahal -- Saul Levin Karliner and the History of Pinsk-Karlin Jewry (1793-1834) -- Growth of the Jewish Population -- The Haskalah -- Educational Institutions -- Secondary Education -- Societies and Benevolent Institutions -- Hospitals -- Synagogues and Study Houses -- The Court -- Hasidism in the Second Third of the Nineteenth Century -- Pinsk and Karlin -- Summary of the History of the Pinsk Jewish Community (1706-1880).

ISBN

• 9780804741590 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 080474159X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2007006903
• 40014890428

OCLC

• 84838741
• ocm84838741
• SCSB-5381955

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries