History Of The Jews in Russia and Poland
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland — S. M. Dubnow — Complete 3-Volume First English Edition Set, 1916–1920
Author: S. M. Dubnow (Simon Dubnow)
Translator: I. Friedlaender
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia
Publication Dates: 1916, 1918 & 1920
Edition: First English Edition / First Printings
Binding: Original publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering
Volumes: Complete three-volume set
A complete three-volume set of Simon Dubnow's monumental History of the Jews in Russia and Poland: From the Earliest Times Until the Present Day, translated from the Russian by I. Friedlaender and published by the Jewish Publication Society of America between 1916 and 1920.
This set comprises the original English-language publication, with each volume bearing its respective original publication date on both the title and copyright pages:
Volume I — 1916From the Beginning Until the Death of Alexander I (1825)
Volume II — 1918From the Death of Alexander I Until the Death of Alexander III (1825–1894)
Volume III — 1920From the Accession of Nicholas II Until the Present Day, with Bibliography and Index
All three volumes retain their matching original dark green cloth bindings with gilt titles to the spines.
Simon Dubnow (1860–1941) was one of the foremost historians of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. His scholarship was particularly important for documenting the history, communities, political circumstances, and cultural development of Jews in Russia and Poland.
Dubnow himself lived through the extraordinary upheavals that transformed Eastern European Jewish life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was ultimately murdered during the Holocaust in Riga in 1941.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland remains one of his best-known works and is an important early English-language resource on the history of Eastern European Jewry. Its subjects include Jewish settlement in Poland and Russia, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Hasidism, the partitions of Poland, Russian imperial policies toward Jews, the Pale of Settlement, pogroms, Jewish political movements, and the development of Zionism.
