Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (Religiose Kulturen Im Europa Der Neuzeit)

The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were multiethnic and multireligious empires, which ruled over a large number of Jews and Muslims. In many ways these two non-Christian minorities presented similar challenges to the imperial order. Which policies did the state pursue toward Jews and Muslims? How did Jews and Muslims attempt to advance their interests in the political sphere? Which role did they play in the imperial army? What did the Jewish and Muslim Enlightenment movements have in common? In which respects were the experiences of Jews and Muslims fundamentally different? This book brings together specialists in Russian-Jewish and Russian-Muslim history and offers perspectives for a comparative approach to the history of Jews and Muslims in Russia. Introduction: Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union -- Franziska Davies, Martin Schulze Wessel Jewish apples and Muslim oranges in the Russian basket: options and limits of a comparative approach -- Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern The Jewish and Muslim enlightenments in tsarist Russia : Judah Leib Gordon and Ismail Bey Gasprinskii -- Michael Stanislawski Confessional policies toward Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the case of the army -- Franziska Davies Common problems, different solutions: Jewish and Muslim politics in late Imperial Russia -- Vladimir Levin On religion and economy: a business network analysis of a Jewish textile company from nineteenth century Łódź -- David Schick Yiddish and the formation of a secular Jewish national identity in Tsarist Russia -- David E. Fishman "Who are we and why?": Imperial, Muslim, and ethnic identities in the Russian Empire -- Michael Khodarkovsky Conflict and authority among Central Asian Muslims in the era of the Russian Revolution -- Adeeb Khalid Documenting the ambivalent empire : Soviet Jewish photographers and the Far East -- David Shneer. Biographical note: Franziska Davies is research associate at the chair of Eastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel is Professor for Eastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Biographical note: Dr. Michael Brenner ist Professor für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Franziska Davies ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Ost- und Südosteuropäische Geschichte der LMU München. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel is Professor of Eastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich Das zarische Russland und die Sowjetunion waren Vielvölkerreiche, in denen auch eine Vielzahl von Juden und Muslimen lebten. Welche Politik verfolgte der Staat gegenüber Juden und Muslimen? Wie versuchten Juden und Muslime in der politischen Sphäre, ihre Interessen zu vertreten? Welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede bestanden zwischen der jüdischen und muslimischen Aufklärungsbewegung im späten Zarenreich? Der vorliegende Band vereint Beiträge von Spezialisten zu unterschiedlichen Aspekten der russisch-jüdischen und russisch-muslimischen Geschichte und eröffnet außerdem vergleichende Perspek ; Biographical note: Franziska Davies is research associate at the chair of Eastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Dr. Martin Schulze Wessel is Professor for Eastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich