This book makes accessibleÑfor the first time in EnglishÑdeclassified archival documents from the former Soviet Union, rabbinic sources, and previously untran

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity. Confessions of the Shtetl explores the day-to-day worl

"This absorbing book is a fine contribution to the growing literature on official identification and the administrative life of the state, including its charact

A pathbreaking study of Jewish marriage and divorce in 19th-century Russia.

At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the B