The Jews of Pinsk, 1881 to 1941 /

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Author / Creator:Shoḥeṭ, ʻAzriʼel, author.
Uniform title:Toldot ḳehilat Pinsḳ 641/1881-701/1941. English
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Description:xxxiv, 754 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8957734
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Other authors / contributors:Mirsky, Mark, editor.
Rosman, Murray Jay, editor.
ISBN:9780804741583 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804741581 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:"Originally published in Hebrew in 1977 under the title Toledot Kehillat Pinsk-Karlin: 1881-1941."
This is the second part of a major undertaking carried out by scholars in Israel to recover and narrate the history of the important Jewish community in Pinsk.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 731-738) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Shortened Forms
  • 1. Pinsk (1881-1914)
  • Formative Factors
  • Demography
  • Emigration
  • The Political Situation
  • The Economic Crisis
  • Economic Transition-Industry
  • 2. Political Trends (Up to 1906)
  • Hibbat Zion
  • In the Period of the Odessa Committee and Benei Moshe
  • In Herzl's Time
  • The Bund
  • Poalei Zion
  • During the First Revolution (1905)
  • 3. The Hebrew Language Movement in Pinsk
  • 4. Education and Culture (1881-1914)
  • The Traditional Heder
  • The Pinsk Talmud Torah
  • The Karlin Talmud Torah
  • The Hadarim Metukanim
  • Ivrit Be-Ivrit in the Heder Ha-Metukan
  • Russian-Jewish Schools for Boys
  • The Education of Girls
  • Secondary Education
  • Vocational Training
  • The Beginnings of Kindergartens
  • Adult Education
  • 5. Changes in Lifestyle and Culture (1881-1914)
  • 6. Institutions, Societies, and Associations for Social Welfare (1881-1914)
  • 7. Suppression and Reaction (1906-1914)
  • 8. In the Period of the First World War
  • Until the German Conquest (August 1, 1914-September 17, 1915)
  • The Beginning of German Rule
  • Hunger Pangs and Hard Labor
  • Expulsions
  • Forced Labor
  • Citizens' Committee
  • Organizations and Political Parties
  • Economic Life
  • Education and Culture
  • Support for the Needy
  • 9. Interregnum (1918-1920)
  • The German-Ukrainian Condominium and Ukrainian Rule, following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, until February 1, 1919
  • First Bolshevik Occupation (February 1-March 5, 1919)
  • First Polish Regime (March 5, 1919-July 26, 1920)
  • The Second Bolshevik Occupation (July 26-September 26, 1920)
  • Invasion and Rioting by Balakhovich's Troops and the Second Polish Regime (September 26, 1920-March 18, 1921) (Treaty of Riga)
  • 10. Between Two World Wars
  • Character of the City
  • Jewish Public Affairs
  • Zionism
  • The General Zionists
  • Wizo [Woman's International Zionist Organization]
  • The Revisionist Party and the New Zionist Organization
  • Zeirei Zion and Poalei Zion-Z. S.
  • Hitahdut
  • Left Poalei Zion
  • The Bund
  • The Communists
  • Zionist Orthodoxy: The Mizrahi
  • Non-Zionist Orthodoxy
  • The He-Halutz Movement, He-Halutz Ha-Kelali
  • He-Halutz Ha-Merkazi
  • He-Halutz Ha-Mizrahi
  • He-Halutz Ha-Betari
  • The Political Situation in the Municipality
  • Anti-Semitic Attracks and Preparation for Self-Defense
  • The Kehillah-the Jewish Autonomous Community
  • Education and Culture
  • Kindergartens
  • Elementary Schools
  • The Tarbut Schools
  • High School Education
  • Vocational Education
  • Adult Education
  • Welfare and Mutual Assistance Institutions
  • Orphanages
  • Old-Age Homes
  • Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia (TOZ)
  • The Tomkhei Aniyim Society
  • Linat Tzedek Society
  • Women's Society for Welfare Work
  • Hospitals
  • Gemilut Hesed (Free Loan) Societies
  • 11. The Second World War up to the Nazi Occupation (September 16, 1939-July 4, 1941)
  • Afterword: Pinsk in Wartime and from 1945 to the Present Zvi Gitelman
  • The Holocaust
  • Post-War Pinsk
  • After the Soviets
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index