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Juden in Ostmitteleuropa: Von der Emanzipation bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg by Gotthold Rhode Review by: John D. Klier The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Oct., 1990), p. 776 Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4210496 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 09:46 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Slavonic and East European Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.34.79.174 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:46:12 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Juden in Ostmitteleuropa: Von der Emanzipation bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg by GottholdRhodeReview by: John D. KlierThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Oct., 1990), p. 776Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4210496 .

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Rhode, Gotthold (ed.) Juden in Ostmitteleuropa: Von der Emanzipation b is zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Historiche und Landeskundliche Ostmitteleuropa Studien, 3. J. G. Herder-Institut, Marburg an der Lahn, I989. xi + 335 pp. Index.

THIS collection of sixteen essays grew out of a conference hosted by the Herder Institute in I 986. The volume brings together a cross-section of Germans (and one Pole) researching the history ofJewry in East-Central Europe. There is a good mix of young and senior scholars. The coverage of the essays is almost equally divided between the eastern provinces of Prussia and the Russian Empire/Congress Poland, with two additional essays, including Walter Pietsch's important examination of internal migration from Galicia to Hun- gary, devoted to Bukovina and Galicia in the Habsburg Monarchy. The volume is useful, not only for the scholarship of its contents, but also as a snapshot of the current state of German scholarship on theJews of this region.

There is little trace ofJewish communal history here - Hebrew and Yiddish sources are almost entirely absent. Instead, the Jews are viewed as one component in the context of wider social-economic forces. This theme is sounded in Gottfried Schramm's introductory essay, which explores the 'econo- mic dead-end' in which the region'sJewry found itself due to rising population and an absence of new economic opportunities before the First World War. There are detailed case studies of theJews in the provinces of East Prussia by Hans-Werner Rautenberg, Stefi Jersch-Wenzel and Kurt Schwerin. Stefan Hartman, in particular, provides interesting population and professional statistics on theJews in Konigsberg. The section devoted to the Russian Empire is highlighted by Manfred Hildermeier's essay on differences in the legal status ofJews in the Empire's Pale ofJewish Settlement, and the Kingdom of Poland, which was not legally part of the Pale. The useful essays ofJiirgen Hensel and Heiko Haumann are devoted to the changing economic role ofJews in Poland.

There are essays devoted to the political activity ofJews in German politics (Helmut Neubach) and the Russian and Polish socialist movements (Elisabeth Sperling, Georg Strobel and Pawel Korzec). Intellectual life is represented by studies of German-Jewish historians of the area (Gotthold Rhode), German literature in Bukovina and theJews (Dieter Kessler) and Inge Blank's examina- tion of the Russian-Jewish intelligentsia and the Jewish Question before and during the Reform Era, a survey which would have benefited from greater familiarity with the works of Michael Stanislawski and Steven Zipperstein.

This volume provides a good introduction to the Jewish Question, espec- ially its economic aspects, in East-Central Europe. Department ofJewish and Hebrew Studies JOHN D. KLIER

University College, London

Hill, Ronald J. The Soviet Union: Politics, Economics and Society from Lenin to Gorbachev. Pinter Publishers, London and New York, I989 (2nd edition). xxii + 256 pp. Map. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. ?25.00; ?9.95 (paperback).

THIS is the second, updated edition of a book which first appeared in I985 in the Marxist Regimes Series. The author has made assiduous efforts to include

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