Barricades and Banners: The Revolution of 1905 and the Transformation of Warsaw Jewry (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture) - Hardcover

Scott Ury

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804763836 ISBN 13: 9780804763837

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This book examines the intersection of urban society and modern politics among Jews in turn of the century Warsaw, Europe's largest Jewish center at the time. By focusing on the tumultuous events surrounding the Revolution of 1905, Barricades and Banners argues that the metropolitanization of Jewish life led to a need for new forms of community and belonging, and that the ensuing search for collective and individual order gave birth to the new institutions, organizations, and practices that would define modern Jewish society and politics for the remainder of the twentieth century. 

Barricades and Banners received the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the field of history from the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). A manuscript version of the book was awarded a commendation for the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history from the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London.

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From the Inside Flap:

"Scott Ury is one of the brightest and most gifted of the younger historians of Jewish Eastern Europe. His new book on Jewish Warsaw is full of fresh perspectives that show the important impact of urbanization on the development of Polish Jewry."--Samuel Kassow, Trinity College

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For more information, see Scott Ury's faculty website:  humanities.tau.ac.il/segel/scottury/

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0804763836
• ISBN 13: 9780804763837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 445