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Tuesday, December 24 • 18:20 - 19:20
Life and death in the Russian 'Pale of Settlement'

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Who were the Jews of Russia? How did they making their livings? How did they feel about the Russian regime, its rulers, its local administrators, its army, their future in the Empire? So many myths and half-truths have circulated about this past and we'll seek to explore them, their origins, and their historicity.
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Steven Zipperstein

Koshland Professor at Stanford University and author of many books including 'Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism', Steven spent six years in the UK in the 1980s as the Frank Green Fellow in Modern Jewish History at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studi... Read More →

Tuesday December 24, 2013 18:20 - 19:20 GMT
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