Catholic Judaism: The Political Theology of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Jewish Enlightenment
It is true, conceded the Russian Minister of Education on 17 March 1841, those fanatics who held fast to the Talmud were not mistaken in ascribing a missionary impulse to his project of enlightening Russia's Jewish population. The Jews' anxieties were understandable, Count Sergei Uva...
| Published in: | Harvard theological review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2016, Volume: 109, Issue: 4, Pages: 483-511 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Russia
/ Religious policy
/ Mission
/ Judaism
/ Talmud
/ History 1820-1870
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBK Europe (East) RJ Mission; missiology |
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| Summary: | It is true, conceded the Russian Minister of Education on 17 March 1841, those fanatics who held fast to the Talmud were not mistaken in ascribing a missionary impulse to his project of enlightening Russia's Jewish population. The Jews' anxieties were understandable, Count Sergei Uvarov admitted, for is not the religion of Christ the purest symbol of grazhdanstvennost' [civil society]? Since conquering Polish-Lithuanian lands in 1795, the Russian government had been unable to establish a consistent policy for integrating its Jewish population into the social and political fabric of the Empire. Most notably, it restricted Jews to living in what was called the Pale of Settlement, a geographic region that includes lands in present day Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Belarus, and Lithuania. The Jews of the Empire were highly observant, spoke their own languages, and occupied specific economic roles. Buoyed by the reformist initiatives that had begun to take hold in Jewish populations based in western European countries, Uvarov hoped to begin a similar process among Russia's Jews. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816016000249 |