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A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life & Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova - Couverture souple

Livre 42 sur 64: The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

Freeze, Chaeran Y.; Freeze, Gregory L.

 
9781684580019: A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life & Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
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ISBN 10 : 1684580013 ISBN 13 : 9781684580019
Editeur : Brandeis University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad lines in Imperial Russia.
For more than seventy-five years, Poliakova kept detailed diaries of her world, giving us a rare look into the exclusive world of Jewish elites in Moscow and St. Petersburg. These rare documents reveal how Jews successfully integrated into Russian aristocratic society through their intimate friendships and patronage of the arts and philanthropy. And they did it all without converting--in fact, while staunchly demonstrating their Jewishness.

Poliakova's life was marked by her dual identity as a Russian and a Jew. She cultivated aristocratic sensibilities and lived an extraordinarily lifestyle, and yet she was limited by the confessional laws of the empire and religious laws that governed her household. She brought her Russian tastes, habits, and sociability to France following her marriage to Reuben Gubbay (the grandson of Sir Albert Abdullah Sassoon). And she had to face the loss of almost all her family members and friends during the Holocaust.

Women's voices are often lost in the sweep of history, and so A Jewish Women of Distinction is an exceptional, much-needed collection. These newly discovered primary sources will change the way we understand the full breadth of the Russian Jewish experience.

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À propos de l'auteur

ChaeRan Y. Freeze is professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. Her books include Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia and Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia, 1772-1914: Select Documents. Gregory L. Freeze is the Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of History at Brandeis University.

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Éditeur
Brandeis University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1684580013
ISBN 13 
9781684580019
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
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