Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, reached the Russian Empire late and spread fast. Raisin traces its course from the closed world before Alexander II through the first maskilim, their conflicts with tradition, the government’s schemes of Russification, the cultural life of cities such as Odessa, and the national awakening at the century’s end.
A 1913 account written close to its subject, valuable to readers of Jewish and Russian history alike. Download the free EPUB.