Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia

Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia

written by Eugene M. Avrutin, fl. 2010 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010, originally published 2010), 224 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
At the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, a gradual shift occurred in the ways in which European governments managed their populations. In the Russian Empire, this transformation in governance meant that Jews could no longer remain a people apart. The identification of Jews by passports, vital statistics records, and censuses was tied to the growth and development of government institutions, the creation of elaborate record-keeping procedures, and the universalistic challenge of documenting populations.In Jews and the Imperial State, Eugene M. Avrutin argues that the challenge of knowing who was Jewish and where Jews were, evolved from the everyday administrative concerns of managing territorial movement, ethnic diversity, and the maze of rights, special privileges, and temporary exemptions that composed the imperial legal code. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexplored archival materials, Avrutin tells the story of how one imperial population, the Jews, shaped the world in which they lived by negotiating with what were often perceived to be contradictory and highly restrictive laws and institutions.Although scholars have long interpreted imperial policies toward Jews in essentially negative terms, this groundbreaking book shifts the focus by analyzing what the law made possible. Some Jews responded to the system of government by circumventing legal statutes, others by bribing, converting, or resorting to various forms of manipulations, and still others by appealing to the state with individual grievances and requests.
Field of Interest
Global Issues
Author
Eugene M. Avrutin, fl. 2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2010 Cornell University Press
Content Type
General reference book
Duration
0 sec
Warning: Contains explicit content
No
Format
Text
Original Publication Date
2010
Page Count
224
Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Place Published / Released
Ithaca, NY
Subject
Global Issues, Social Sciences, Violence and Repression, Individual and Groups Rights, Revolution and Protest context, Laws and legislation, Cultural identity, Sociology, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Rusia, Russia, Russians, Jews, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Rusia

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