The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880 - 9780804741590

The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880Author(s): Mordechai Nadav, Mark Mirsky, Moshe Rosman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804741590, 978-0804741590\nSynopsis\nThe Jews of Pinsk, [tel] 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.\n\n The two volumes of Pinsk history were originally part of a literature created by Jews who survived the Holocaust and were determined to keep in memory a vital world that flourished for half a millennium. In this case, the results are extraordinary: no town of Eastern Euro.