• 1. The empire reforms. The community response--
• 2. Militarizing the Jew. Judaizing the military--
• 3. 'Let the children come to me': Jewish minors in the Cantonist battalions--
• 4. Universal draft and the singular Jews--
• 5. The Russian army's Jewish question--
• 6. The revolutionary draft--
• 7. Banished from modernity.
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This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of personal conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The conscription integrated Jews into the state, transforming the repressed Jewish victims of the draft into modern imperial Russian Jews. The book contextualizes the reasons underlying the decision to draft Jews, the communal responses to the draft, the missionary initiatives directed toward Jews in the army, alleged Jewish draft evasion and Jewish military performance, and the strategies Jews used to endure military service. It also explores the growing antisemitism of the upper echelons of the military toward the Jews on the eve of World War I and the rise of Russian-Jewish loyalty and patriotism.
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• Part I. The Era of the Great Reforms:
• 1. Moshkas and Ioshkas--
• 2. The Illustratsiia affair of 1858--
• 3. Defining terms--
• 4. Rassvet and the future of Judaism--
• 5. Sion and the problem of nationality--
• 6. The religious element in Russian Judeophobia-- Part II. The Era of Russification:
• 7. Russification in the Northwest--
• 8. 'Kiev is Russian'--
• 9. 'Kiev is Ukrainian'--
• 10. Education and Russification--
• 11. Partisans of enlightenment: the ORPME--
• 12. 'A State within a State'-- Part III. The Era of Social and Economic Change:
• 13. The theme of 'Jewish exploitation--
• 14. Dead souls: the military reform of 1874--
• 15. The dilemma of the Russian Jewish intelligentsia--
• 16. The riddle of liberal Judeophobia--
• 17. The crystallization of conservative Judeophobia--
• 18. The occult element in Russian Judeophobia.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The reform era in Russia (1855-1881) witnessed the emancipation of the serfs, economic and social change, the reform of all imperial institutions, and the growth of national identity among Russians and the Empire's expanding Jewish population. Consequently, the 'Jewish Question' became one of most hotly debated topics in Russia. Attitudes toward the Jews which evolved during this period persisted up to the Revolution and beyond. This book, based on exhaustive archival research of materials published during the period, studies the interplay of public opinion and official policy. The author examines the attitudes of all sectors of Russian educated society towards the Jews. He also explores how a new group, the Russian Jewish intelligentsia, sought to define a modern Jewish identity in the midst of a multi-ethnic Empire.
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• v. 1-2. Ancient times.
• v. 3-8. High Middle Ages, 500-1200.
• v. 9-<18> Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion, 1200-1650.

• v. 1. From the beginning until the death of Alexander I.
• v. 2 From the death of Alexander I, until the death of Alexander III.
• v. 3 From the accession of Nicholas II, until the present day, with bibliography and index.