Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein textbook-shipeasy An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to

An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to explore and document daily life in the centuries old Jewish communities of the Pale of Settlement

The first section

here in English and Yiddish on facing pages

The captivating stories of luminaries from the worlds of politics

and on the history of secular Yiddish writing in Galicia

Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires by Sarah Abrevaya Stein textbook-shipeasy An-sky's Jewish Ethnographic Expedition to"An engaging and thought provoking analysis, . . . a pioneering foray into a new field of study, 'Jews and Empires in History.'" Slavic ReviewOn the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries. What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? To answer these questions, Sarah