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'Confessions of the Shtetl' explores Jewish conversions to a variety of Christian confessions in nineteenth-century imperial Russia.

The work analyzes the surprisingly restrained policy of the Russian state and Orthodox Church toward conversion of Jews which highlights the meaning and management of toleration and religious diversity in imperial Russia more broadly.

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Product Details
Stanford University Press
1503600246 / 9781503600249
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
18/05/2017
English
329 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Previously issued in print: 2016 Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 28, 2017).