@Book{771420706,
editor="Freeze, ChaeRan",
title="Everyday Jewish life in imperial Russia: select documents ; [1772 - 1914]",
series="The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry",
year="2013",
publisher="Brandeis Univ. Press",
address="Waltham, Mass.",
keywords="Jews; Russia; Social life and customs; History; Sources",
abstract="I. Religious life. The diversity of religious experience -- Religious dilemmas and Jewish law -- Conversion to Christianity -- Jews and the state on religious matters -- II. Family life. Parents and children -- Marriage and divorce -- Family life after conversion to Christianity -- Death: orphanhood, guardianship, and property -- III. Health and sexuality. Traditional healing and folk medicines -- Diet, hygiene, and exercise -- Mental illness -- Modesty -- Marital sex -- Extramarital sex -- Prostitution -- IV. Education and culture. Institutions of Jewish learning -- Jewish private schools -- Secondary school education -- State rabbinical schools in Vil'na and Zhitomir -- University life -- V. Work. Commerce and trade -- Domestic service -- Jewish agricultural colonies and farms -- Artisans and factory work -- Professionals -- VI. Jews, neighbors, and the Russian state. Conscription -- The Polish uprising of 1863 -- Antisemitism and pogroms -- Jews in the revolutionary movement -- Zionism -- Emigration",
note="ed. by ChaeRan Y. Freeze ...",
note="Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-619) and index",
isbn="9781611684551",
language="English"
}