Title
The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement,Used
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At the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the worlds Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish Dark Continent.Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named Ansky pledged to explore the Pale. He dreamed of leading an ethnographic expedition that would produce an archivewhat he called an Oral Torah of the common people rather than the rabbinic elitewhich would preserve Jewish traditions and transform them into the seeds of a modern Jewish culture. Between 1912 and 1914, Ansky and his team collected jokes, recorded songs, took thousands of photographs, and created a massive ethnographic questionnaire. Consisting of 2,087 questions in Yiddishexploring the gamut of Jewish folk beliefs and traditions, from everyday activities to spiritual exercises to marital intimaciesthe Jewish Ethnographic Program constitutes an invaluable portrait of Eastern European Jewish life on the brink of destruction.Nathaniel Deutsch offers the first complete translation of the questionnaire, as well as the riveting story of Anskys almost messianic efforts to create a Jewish ethnography in an era of revolutionary change. Anskys project was halted by World War I, and within a few years the Pale of Settlement would no longer exist. These survey questions revive and reveal shtetl life in all its wonder and complexity.
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