Book contents
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Reviews
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Conventions
- 1 Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Part i Central and North Asia: Old and New Communities in Russia’s Shadow
- 2 The End of the “Jewish Triangle”
- 3 The Soviet Wartime Evacuation to Central Asia and the Jews
- 4 Frontier Jews
- Part ii South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
- Part iii Southeast Asia: Colonial Legacies and Emerging Communities
- Part iv East Asia: Communities and Strife in the Sinosphere
- Part v Imaginary Asia: Lost Peoples and Invisible Communities
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Picture and Map Acknowledgments
- Index
4 - Frontier Jews
The Communities of Siberia and Their Architecture
from Part i - Central and North Asia: Old and New Communities in Russia’s Shadow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2023
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Book contents
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Reviews
- Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translations and Conventions
- 1 Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
- Part i Central and North Asia: Old and New Communities in Russia’s Shadow
- 2 The End of the “Jewish Triangle”
- 3 The Soviet Wartime Evacuation to Central Asia and the Jews
- 4 Frontier Jews
- Part ii South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
- Part iii Southeast Asia: Colonial Legacies and Emerging Communities
- Part iv East Asia: Communities and Strife in the Sinosphere
- Part v Imaginary Asia: Lost Peoples and Invisible Communities
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Picture and Map Acknowledgments
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the question of Jewish settlement in North Asia from the early nineteenth century onward. Former criminals and their descendants turned into wealthy and proud people who looked down upon their poor brethren in the congested Pale of Jewish Settlement in the western part of the Russian Empire. Their wealth and role in Siberian life found architectural expression in the large and prominent synagogues, communal institutions and private houses that bore clear signs of their owners’ Jewishness.
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- Jewish Communities in Modern AsiaTheir Rise, Demise and Resurgence, pp. 66 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023