TY - BOOK ID - 32885495 TI - Movable Inn : The Rural Jewish Population of Minsk Guberniya in 1793-1914 PY - 2018 SN - 3110576090 9783110576092 3110576015 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Rural conditions KW - Jews KW - Hebrews KW - Israelites KW - Jewish people KW - Jewry KW - Judaic people KW - Judaists KW - Ethnology KW - Religious adherents KW - Semites KW - Judaism KW - Rural life KW - Social history KW - History. KW - Belarus, culture, demography, family structure, genealogy, Jews, landlords,. UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32885495 AB - Jews are typically viewed as urban dwellers. However there was a considerable Jewish presence in villages from the very beginning of their settlement in Eastern Europe in the 12th century, up until the Holocaust. The presence of a large Jewish population in villages was, in fact, one of the most distinctive features of East European Jewry. The colourful personality of Jewish leaseholders of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages was often depicted in Polish, Russian and Jewish literature of the 19th century, but the real knowledge about the East European rural Jews beyond the stereotypical view is still at large.The book presents the results of a systematic survey, the first of its kind, on the rural Jews in the Minsk Guberniya, from its establishment as a major administrative unit within the Russian Empire in 1793, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The present study is based mainly on systematic sources, which produced, for the first time, a full picture of Jewish settlement in the countryside in one particular region of the Russian Empire. ER -