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© Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
University College London
Author: Dr. John Klier


HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND GENERAL STUDIES

1. Books

Baron, Salo W. The Russian Jew under Tsars and Soviets. New York and London; Macmillan; 1976.

Dawidowicz, Lucy S. The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe. Boston; Beacon Press; 1967.

Dubnow, S. M. History of the Jews in Poland and Russia. 3 vols. Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America; 1914-16.

Greenberg, Louis. The Jews in Russia. 2 vols. in one. New York; Schocken (reprint of 1944-51 edition).

Hundert, G. D. and Bacon, G. C. The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays. Bloomington; Indiana University Press; 1984.

Löwe, Heinz-Dietrich. The Tsars and the Jews: Reform, Reaction and Anti-Semitism in Imperial Russia, 1772-1917. London; Harwood Academic Publishers; 1993.

Polonsky, Antony, ed. Studies from Polin: From Shtetl to Socialism. London and Washington; Littman Library; 1993.

Potichnyj, Peter J. and Aster, Howard, eds. Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Historical Perspective. Edmonton; Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies; 1988.

Zinberg, Israel. A History of Jewish Literature. 12 vols. Cleveland and New York; Hebrew Union College Press; 1972-8. Volumes IX (1976) and XI (1978).

2. Journals

Gal-Ed: On the History of the Jews in Poland. Jerusalem, 1973-present.

Polin: A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies. Oxford, 1986-present.

East European Jewish Affairs (formerly Soviet Jewish Affairs), London, 1968-present.

B. Jewish Settlement in Eastern Europe

Birnbaum, Henrik, "On Some Evidence of Jewish Life and Anti-Jewish Sentiments in Medieval Europe," Viator, 4 (1973):225-55.

Dunlop, D. M. The History of the Jewish Khazars. Princeton; Princeton University Press; 1954.

Golb, Norman, Pritsak, Omeljan. Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca, NY; Cornell University Press; 1982.

Halperin, Charles J., "Judaizers and the Image of the Jew in MedievalRussia: A Polemic Revisited and a Question Posed," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 9 (Summer, 1975):141-55. 

C. Jewish Settlement in Polish Lands

Baron, Salo W., ed. Economic History of the Jews. Jerusalem; Keter Press; 1975.

Pritsak, Omeljan, "The Pre-Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe in Relation to the Khazars, the Rus' and the Lithuanians," in Potichnyj and Aster, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, pp. 3-22.

Wischnitzer, Mark. A History of Jewish Crafts and Guilds. New York, 1965.

Wexler, Paul. The Ashkenazic Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity. Columbus, OH; Slavica Publishers; 1993).

Ettinger, Shmuel, "Jewish Participation in the Settlement of Ukraine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century," in Potichnyj and Aster, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, pp. 23-30.

Mahler, Raphael. Hasidism and the Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America (1985). ISBN 0-8276-0233-2. B

D. Polish Jews under Russian Rule

1. The Jews in the Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Eastern Prussia

Corrsin, Stephen D. Warsaw before the First World War: Poles and Jews in the Third City of the Russian Empire, 1880-1914. Boulder; Westview Press; 1989.

Eisenbach, Arthur. The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland, 1780-1870. Oxford; Basil Blackwell; 1991.

Opalski, Magdalena, Bartal, Israel. Poles and Jews: A Failed Brotherhood. Hanover and London; University Press of New England; 1992.

Springer, Arnold, "Enlightened Despotism and Jewish Reform: Prussia, Austrai and Russia," California Slavic Studies, 11 (1980):237-67.  

2. The Passage of Jews under Russian Rule

Fishman, David E. Russia's First Modern Jews: The Jews of Shklov. New York and London; New York University Press; 1995.

Kahan, Arcadius, Essays in Jewish Social and Economic History. Edited by Roger Weiss. Chicago and London; University of Chicago Press; 1986)

Klier, John D. Russia Gathers Her Jews: The Origins of the Jewish Question in Russia, 1772-1825. DeKalb, IL; Northern Illinois University Press; 1986.

Levitats, Isaac. The Jewish Community in Russia, 1772-1844. New York; Columbia University Press; 1943.

Miller, Philip E. Karaite Separatism in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Joseph Solomon Lutski's Epistle of Israel's Deliverance.. Cincinaati, OH; Hebrew Union College Press, 1993.

Pipes, Richard, "Catherine II and the Jews: The Origins of the Pale of Settlement," Soviet Jewish Affairs, 5 (1975):3-20.

Springer, Arnold, "Gavriil Derzhavin's Jewish Reform Project of 1800," Canadian American Slavic Studies, 10 (1976):1-24.

E. Jews in the Russian Empire prior to 1881

Aronson, Chaim. A Jewish Life under the Tsars: The Autobiography of Chaim Aronson, 1825-1888. Norman Marsden, trans. and ed. Totawa, NY; Allanheld, Osmun; 1983.

Etkes, Immanuel. Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement. Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America; 1993.

Frumkin, J., et al. Russian Jewry (1860-1917). New York and London; Yoseloff; 1966.

Klier, John D. Imperial Russia's Jewish Question, 1855-1881. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1995.

Lederhendler, Eli. The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community of Tsarist Russia. New York and Oxford; Oxford University Press; 1989.

Miron, Dan. A Traveller Disguised: A Study of the Rise of Modern Yiddish Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. New York; Schocken; 1973.

Orbach, Alexander. New Voices of Russian Jewry: A Study of the Russian-Jewish Press of Odessa in the Era of the Great Reforms, 1860-1871. Leiden; Brill; 1980.

Raisin, Jacob S. The Haskalah Movement in Russia. Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America ; 1913.

Stampfer, Shaul, "Heder Study, Knowledge of Torah, and the Maintenance of Social Stratification in Traditional East European Jewish Society," Studies in Jewish Education, Jerusalem, III (1988):271-89.

Stanislawski, Michael. For Whom Do I Toil? Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry. Oxford; Oxford University Press; 1988.

__________. Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews. Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America; 1983.

Zipperstein, Steven J. The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History, 1794-1881. Stanford, CA; Stanford University Press; 1985.

F. Russian Jewry from 1881 to the Revolution of 1917

Aronson, I. Michael. Troubled Waters: The Origins of the 1881 Anti-Jewish Pogroms in Russia. Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Press; 1990.

Beizer, Mikhail. The Jews of St. Petersburg: Excursions through a Noble Past. Philadelphia; Jewish Publication Society of America; 1989.

Berk, Stephen M. Year of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-2. Westport, CT; Greenwood Press; 1985.

Brym, Robert. The Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism. London; Macmillan; 1978.

Frankel, Jonathan. Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1981.

Hamm, Michael F. Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917. Princeton; Princeton University Press; 1993.

Judge, Edward H. Easter in Kishinev: Anatomy of a Pogrom. New York and London; New York University Press; 1992.

Klier, John D., Lambroza, Shlomo, eds. Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1991.

Levitats, Isaac. The Jewish Community in Russia, 1844-1917. Jerusalem; Posner; 1981.

Mendelsohn, Ezra. Class Struggle in the Pale. Cambridge; Cambridge University Press; 1970.

Rogger, Hans. Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia. London and New York; Macmillan; 1986.

Tobias, Henry J. The Jewish Bund in Russia. Stanford, CA; Stanford University Press; 1972.

Weinberg, Robert. The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa. Bloomington, IN; Indiana University Press; 1993.

Wynn, Charters. Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass-Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1905. Princeton; Princeton University Press; 1992.

Zipperstein, Steven J. Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism. London; Peter Halban; 1993).

G. Literature in Translation

Aleichem, Sholom [Solomon Rabinovich].Tevye the Dairyman and the Railraod Stories. Hillel Halkin, trans. and ed. New York, 1987.

An--sky, S. [Solomon Rapoport]. The Dybbuk and Other Writings. David Roskies, ed. New York; Shocken; 1992.

*Howe, Irving, Greenberg, Eliezer. A Treasury of Yiddish Stories. London, 1955.

*__________. Yiddish Stories Old and New. New York, 1974.

*Neugroschel, Joachim, trans. and ed. The Shtetl: A Creative Anthology of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe. Woodstock, NY, 1989.

*Peretz, I. L. The I. L. Peretz Reader. Ruth R. Wisse, trans. and ed. New York, 1990.

*Wisse, Ruth R., trans. and ed. A Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas. Detroit, 1986.

*These books are on overnight reserve in the College Library. In addition, you may find many editions of Sholom Aleichem's stories, while the works of Medele Mokher Sforim and I. L. Peretz may sometimes be found in old editions.