By and large, the books on Jewish demography and
social relations are in short supply. It is even more
true as to research dealing with the tiny Jewish
communities in Eastern and South Central Europe,
where either inaccessibility of the archives during
the Soviet era or lack of scholarly tradition have
impeded such studies for decades. This book provides
the fresh gaze into Jewish history from the
perspective of modern times and culture. It focuses
on the social mobility of Estonian and Slovenian
Jewish intelligentsia and doing that draws on the
unique archival sources. Jews and education...