Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union

Franziska Davies, Martin Schulze Wessel, Michael Brenner, Franziska Davies, Martin Schulze Wessel, Michael Brenner

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783525310281
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783647310282
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were multiethnic and multireligious empires, which ruled over a large number of Jews and Muslims. In many ways these two non-Christian minorities presented similar challenges to the imperial order. Which policies did the state pursue toward Jews and Muslims? How did Jews and Muslims attempt to advance their interests in the political sphere? Which role did they play in the imperial army? What did the Jewish and Muslim Enlightenment movements have in common? In which respects were the experiences of Jews and Muslims fundamentally different? This book brings together specialists in Russian-Jewish and Russian-Muslim history and offers perspectives for a comparative approach to the history of Jews and Muslims in Russia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Franziska Davies, Martin Schulze Wessel: Introduction: Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
• Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern: Jewish Apples and Muslim Oranges in the Russian Basket: Options and Limits of a Comparative Approach
• Michael Stanislawski: The Jewish and Muslim Enlightenments in Tsarist Russia: Judah Leib Gordon and Ismail Bey Gasprinskii
• Franziska Davies: Confessional Policies toward Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Case of the Army
• Vladimir Levin: Common Problems, Different Solutions: Jewish and Muslim Politics in Late Imperial Russia
• David Schick: On Religion and Economy: A Business Network Analysis of a Jewish Textile Company from Nineteenth Century Łódź
• David E. Fishman: Yiddish and the Formation of a Secular Jewish National Identity in Tsarist Russia
• Michael Khodarkovsky: “Who Are We And Why?” Imperial, Muslim, and Ethnic Identities in the Russian Empire
• Adeeb Khalid: Conflict and Authority Among Central Asian Muslims in the Era of the Russian Revolution
• David Shneer: Documenting the Ambivalent Empire: Soviet Jewish Photographers and the Far East
• Picture credits
• Contributors and Editors