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Barricades and Banners: the Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry

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Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry - Ury, Scott
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This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish ...

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Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry 2012, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804763837

Hardcover