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Jews in Service to the Tsar

By Lev Berdnikov, Nora Favorov (Translator)
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By Lev Berdnikov, Nora Favorov (Translator)
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Benjamin Disraeli advised, "Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe's Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about the role of Jews in Russian history.

The 28 individuals profiled in these pages are bound by a single thread: each ser...

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