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The Jewish Dark Continent

Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement

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ISBN 9780674047280

Publication Date: 11/29/2011

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384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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  • Introduction
  • I
    • 1. Exploring the Jewish Dark Continent
    • 2. The Rebbe as Ethnographer / The Ethnographer as Rebbe
    • 3. A Total Account: Writing Down the People’s Torah
    • 4. The Book of Man
  • II
    • Preface to the Annotated Translation
    • The Jewish Ethnographic Program
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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