Rare Russian-Jewish Publications from the Late 19th - Early 20th Century In 1917, there were more Jews living in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. The Jewish population in Russia had grown from 1.6 million in 1820 to 5.6 million in 1910. Starting in the second half of the 19th century, the Jews in the Russian Empire were caught up in a major cultural and social transformation that ushered in modernity for the Ashkenazi Jewries.
This collection reflects the cultural and social life of the Jewish population of that period, and its relations with the wider society. The overwhelming majority of these publications - which were issued in small editions, and often in provincial cities - have been irretrievably lost. The uniqueness of these publications is also evinced by the fact that their pages contained works by many writers who later became well-known authors, poets, translators, commentators, or political activists, such as H.N. Bialik, L. Jaffe, S. Marshak, L. Gordon, I. Levner, S. Asch, M. Berdichevskii, S. Uishkevich, Ben-Ami, V. Khodasevich, K. Lipskerov, M. Mane, and A. Sobol. For more information and a title list of this collection, please visit <http://www.idc.nl/ez/22>www.idc.nl/ez/22 or contact us at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
