Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Slezkine, Yuri

Titel

BABEL'S FIRST LOVE: THE JEWS AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Ist Teil von

• The Jewish Century, New Edition, 2019, p.105-203

Auflage

NED - New edition

Ort / Verlag

United States: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At the turn of the twentieth century, most of Europe’s Jews (5.2 out of about 8.7 million) lived in the Russian Empire, where they constituted about 4 percent of the total population. Most of Russia’s Jews (about 90 percent) resided in the Pale of Settlement, to which they were legally restricted. Most of the Jews in the Pale of Settlement (all but about 4 percent, who were farmers and factory workers) continued to pursue traditional service occupations as middlemen between the overwhelmingly agricultural Christian population and various urban markets. Most of the Jewish middlemen bought, shipped, and resold local produce;