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The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881 (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

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This book was a good read for all jews, not just ashkenazi jews whos roots were from this region. I did enjoy learning about the lifestyles and how jews had not just fit into these societies, but also flourished during this time. One thing that neeeds to be brought to attention is most of this book deals with polish and russian jews, which had the 1st and 2nd highest population of jews in the world at that time, but the author failed in writing much about Romania which had the 3rd highest population of jews at the time and borders Ukraine and is directly south of Poland. Maybe so because there are sephardic jews in Romania as well as Ashkenazi, I'm not sure, but this was the only part lacking from this book. If you're gonna mention this region, Romania is directly in the middle of it. All and all an interesting read and well worth adding to my collection

I was assigned this book for a college course in Modern Jewish History. The book was actually very interesting and presented a compelling argument for its definition of the modern era of Jewish history. It was easy to understand and surprisingly engaging. I wouldn't pick it up for fun, but as far as school reading goes, it's a nice book to be stuck with.