Ellie R Schainker

Confessions of the Shtetl

Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906

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Produktbeschreibung

Confessions of the Shtetl explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in the Russian empire, with special attention to the relations of trust and attraction between Jews and Christians that facilitated religious conversions in the provincial heartland of Jewish Eastern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780804798280
• ISBN-10: 0804798281
• Artikelnr.: 45003055

Autorenporträt

Ellie R. Schainker is the Arthur Blank Family Foundation Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Converts and Confessions
1. The Genesis of Confessional Choice
2. The Missionizing Marketplace
3. Shtetls, Taverns, and Baptism
4. From Vodka to Violence
5. Relapsed Converts and Tales of Marranism
6. Jewish-Christian Sects in Southern Russia
Epilogue: Converts on the Cultural Map