The Jews of the Russian Empire in a Time of Revolution and Violence, 1904–1907: An Introduction
The Jews of the Russian Empire in a Time of Revolution and Violence, 1904–1907: An Introduction

Summary/Abstract: Surveying the course of modern Jewish history and the historical phenomenon and historiographical subfield that he helped trace, define, and codify as “modern Jewish politics,” Jonathan Frankel, the legendary, canonical scholar of Russian and east European Jewry, pointed to the critical role that wider political or social crises often played as key turning points in the history of political organization, action and thinking among Europe’s Jews. Pointing to the two crises that would serve as the background and framework for his seminal works, Prophecy and Politics and The Damascus Affair, Frankel argued throughout his illustrious career that seismic events like wars, revolutions or even environmental crises repeatedly sparked wide-ranging, long-term changes among Jewish thinkers and activists.

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