Alexander Orbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Orbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Orbach |
| SIGNATURE | ORBACH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Brendan McGeever. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Before the Nazi assault against European Jewry, the most violent antisemitic outbursts occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution on lands that had formerly been part of the Russian Empire. Estimates of Jewish fatalities range from fifty thousand to two hundred thousand in the period 1917–21. It is to that period and to those atrocities that Brendan McGeever directs our attention. However, his focus is on not the assaults but the respons…
Jewish Emancipation
The Emergence of Ethnic Politics in 1905
The legalization of political activity in Tsarist Russia in 1905 created the opportunity for Jewish liberals to enter the public arena as proponents of civic and political rights for the Jews of the realm. However, unlike Jewish liberals in western and central Europe, Russian-Jewish liberals also called for the extension of national cultural rights for the Jews of Russia in addition to that of individual emancipation. They formed the League for t…
Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale
Israel Kleiner, From Nationalism to Universalism
Elusive Prophet
A biography of the guiding intellectual of Zionism during the movement's formative years from the 1880s to the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am (One of the People) was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every important trend and current in contemporary Jewry. A Hebrew essayist of remarkable knowledge and skill, through his writings he exerted a rare authority on every controversial topic, from Jewish National…
Stalin's War against the Jews
Based on newly released archival sources and first-hand interviews never before available to historians, here is the first full account of Jewish life under Stalin's tyranny. 8-page photograph insert
The Road to Modern Jewish Politics
The Jews of the Soviet Union
Russian Jewish History
Journal Article RUSSIAN JEWISH HISTORY Get access Alexander Orbach Alexander Orbach UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 10, Issue 3, October 1990, Pages 325–342, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.3.325 Published: 01 October 1990
The Jewish People's Group and Jewish Politics in Tsarist Russia, 1906–1914
Journal Article THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S GROUP AND JEWISH POLITICS IN TSARIST RUSSIA, 1906–1914 Get access Alexander orbach Alexander orbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 10, Issue 1, February 1990, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.1.1 Published: 01 February 1990
For Whom Do I Toil? Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry
"Herlihy's "Odessa
Stephen M. Berk, Year of Crisis, Year of Hope. Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881–1882
The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948-1967. A Documented Study
Provides the English reader with a comprehensive study, based on first-hand documentary material, of Soviet policy towards the Jews of the USSR from the Stalinist era, through to the interregnum (1953–7), the Khrushchev period and the 'collective leadership' of Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny (1964–7). In 1948 the State of Israel was established with the support of the Soviet bloc. But the period 1948–53 (the so-called 'black years'), also witness…
The Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism
Jewish Intellectuals in Odessa in the Late Nineteenth Century
From the end of the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, the Jewish communities of Vilna (Vilnius), Odessa, and Warsaw stood out as the prominent intellectual and cultural centers of Russian and Polish Jewry. In the period immediately following the Partitions of Poland, the preeminence of the northern region and Vilna, its major city, was acknowledged by all. Characterized by the rich Talmudical tradition associated with Elijah ben So…
Elusive Prophet
A biography of the guiding intellectual of Zionism during the movement's formative years from the 1880s to the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am (One of the People) was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every important trend and current in contemporary Jewry. A Hebrew essayist of remarkable knowledge and skill, through his writings he exerted a rare authority on every controversial topic, from Jewish National…
The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948-1967. A Documented Study
Provides the English reader with a comprehensive study, based on first-hand documentary material, of Soviet policy towards the Jews of the USSR from the Stalinist era, through to the interregnum (1953–7), the Khrushchev period and the 'collective leadership' of Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny (1964–7). In 1948 the State of Israel was established with the support of the Soviet bloc. But the period 1948–53 (the so-called 'black years'), also witness…
Stalin's War against the Jews
Based on newly released archival sources and first-hand interviews never before available to historians, here is the first full account of Jewish life under Stalin's tyranny. 8-page photograph insert
The Jewish People's Group and Jewish Politics in Tsarist Russia, 1906–1914
Journal Article THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S GROUP AND JEWISH POLITICS IN TSARIST RUSSIA, 1906–1914 Get access Alexander orbach Alexander orbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 10, Issue 1, February 1990, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.1.1 Published: 01 February 1990
Jewish Intellectuals in Odessa in the Late Nineteenth Century
From the end of the eighteenth century until the Revolution of 1917, the Jewish communities of Vilna (Vilnius), Odessa, and Warsaw stood out as the prominent intellectual and cultural centers of Russian and Polish Jewry. In the period immediately following the Partitions of Poland, the preeminence of the northern region and Vilna, its major city, was acknowledged by all. Characterized by the rich Talmudical tradition associated with Elijah ben So…
The Jewish Intelligentsia and Russian Marxism
The Soviet Government and the Jews, 1948-1967. A Documented Study
Provides the English reader with a comprehensive study, based on first-hand documentary material, of Soviet policy towards the Jews of the USSR from the Stalinist era, through to the interregnum (1953–7), the Khrushchev period and the 'collective leadership' of Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny (1964–7). In 1948 the State of Israel was established with the support of the Soviet bloc. But the period 1948–53 (the so-called 'black years'), also witness…
Stephen M. Berk, Year of Crisis, Year of Hope. Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881–1882
"Herlihy's "Odessa
Russian Jewish History
Journal Article RUSSIAN JEWISH HISTORY Get access Alexander Orbach Alexander Orbach UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 10, Issue 3, October 1990, Pages 325–342, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.3.325 Published: 01 October 1990
The Jewish People's Group and Jewish Politics in Tsarist Russia, 1906–1914
Journal Article THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S GROUP AND JEWISH POLITICS IN TSARIST RUSSIA, 1906–1914 Get access Alexander orbach Alexander orbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 10, Issue 1, February 1990, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.1.1 Published: 01 February 1990
For Whom Do I Toil? Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry
The Road to Modern Jewish Politics
The Jews of the Soviet Union
Stalin's War against the Jews
Based on newly released archival sources and first-hand interviews never before available to historians, here is the first full account of Jewish life under Stalin's tyranny. 8-page photograph insert
Elusive Prophet
A biography of the guiding intellectual of Zionism during the movement's formative years from the 1880s to the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am (One of the People) was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every important trend and current in contemporary Jewry. A Hebrew essayist of remarkable knowledge and skill, through his writings he exerted a rare authority on every controversial topic, from Jewish National…
Israel Kleiner, From Nationalism to Universalism
Benjamin Nathans, Beyond the Pale
The Emergence of Ethnic Politics in 1905
The legalization of political activity in Tsarist Russia in 1905 created the opportunity for Jewish liberals to enter the public arena as proponents of civic and political rights for the Jews of the realm. However, unlike Jewish liberals in western and central Europe, Russian-Jewish liberals also called for the extension of national cultural rights for the Jews of Russia in addition to that of individual emancipation. They formed the League for t…
Jewish Emancipation
Brendan McGeever. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution
Before the Nazi assault against European Jewry, the most violent antisemitic outbursts occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution on lands that had formerly been part of the Russian Empire. Estimates of Jewish fatalities range from fifty thousand to two hundred thousand in the period 1917–21. It is to that period and to those atrocities that Brendan McGeever directs our attention. However, his focus is on not the assaults but the respons…
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