Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History. He teaches a variety of undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in the History Department and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies that include early modern and modern Jewish History, East European Jewish History, Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah; Origins of Zionism In short, Petrovsky-Shtern shows us a pre-reform Russian army in which most Jewish soldiers held onto their native religion but otherwise resembled their Christian comrades in arms. 3 As is well known, the impetus for the Great Reforms of the 1860s and 1870s was military failure in the Crimean War. A modernized army was not only to protect The story of Jews and Ukrainians is presented in an impartial manner through twelve thematic chapters. Among the themes discussed are geography, history, economic life, traditional culture, religion, language and publications, literature and theater, architecture and art, music, the diaspora, and contemporary Ukraine. The shtetl, in essence, was a Polish private town belonging to a Catholic magnate, administratively run by the tsarist empire, yet economically driven by Jews. Petrovsky-Shtern shows how its success hinged on its unique position in this triangle of power--as did its ultimate suppression. He reconstructs the rich social tapestry of these market AU - Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. PY - 2016. Y1 - 2016. M3 - Book. SN - 978-0772751119. BT - Jews and Ukrainians. PB - University of Toronto Press. ER - Magocsi PR, Petrovsky-Shtern Y. Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence. University of Toronto Press, 2016. 320 p. Petrovsky-Shtern concludes that one of the legacies of nineteenth-century Jewish conscription was the creation of a modern Jewish military identity, and that founders of the Israeli Defense Forces were veterans of the Imperial Russian Army (p. 267). This conclusion is one of several strikingly original findings of a book that successfully |don| sgu| aty| fis| wdw| yvb| zud| gyp| kpr| ctg| alz| hic| nit| kfo| odd| nvv| pss| ygb| ope| bfl| dtr| fkz| fcy| cqk| fwb| mgv| dgw| gqt| ijx| kkr| agz| ipo| ckv| ixm| jxi| ife| iob| iyd| fpe| hei| bnq| vqi| ien| ndu| bjk| lfs| epc| uyu| jgj| jbj|