Table of Contents

List of Maps, Illustrations, and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. The Russian-Jewish Encounter PART I: THE PROBLEM OF EMANCIPATION UNDER THE OLD REGIME 1. Jews and the Imperial Social Hierarchy 2. The Genesis of Selective Integration PART II. THE JEWS OF ST. PETERSBURG 3. Language, Ethnicity, and Urban Space 4. Conflict and Community 5. The Geography of Jewish Politics PART III. JEWS, RUSSIANS, AND THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY 6. The University as Melting Pot? 7. A Silent Pogrom PART IV. IN THE COURT OF GENTILES 8. The Judicial Reform and Jewish Citizenship 9. Ethnicity and Civil Society: The Russian Legal Profession Conclusion. The Russian-Jewish Encounter in Comparative Perspective Bibliography Index

About the Author

Benjamin Nathans is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited the Russian-language Research Guide to Materials on the History of Russian Jewry (Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries) in Selected Archives of the Former Soviet Union (1994), compiled by G. M. Deych.

Reviews

"A groundbreaking, brilliant and compelling book."--"Haaretz