A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, «beyond the Pale» of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter.<br /><br />In the wake of Russia's «Great Reforms,» Nathans writes, a policy of selective integration stimulated social and...
