Church and State in Late Imperial Russia: Critics of the Synodal System of Church Government (1861-1914). By John D. Basil. Minnesota Mediterranean and East European Monographs, no. 13. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xi, 214 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Paul Werth
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
East European ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Church Government

Epilogue

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie R. Schainker
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
East European ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Russia ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Cultural Mobility ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Revolutionary Period

The epilogue summarizes how the phenomenon of Russian Jewish conversion, though marginal in number, left an outsized imprint on the cultural map of East European Jews who grappled with questions of Jewish identity and the role of religion in the increasingly powerful Jewish secular nationalist ideologies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The epilogue explores evolving Jewish attitudes towards baptism, interfaith sociability, and cultural mobility in the late-imperial period, and it puts conversions from Judaism in imperial Russia in conversation with conversions from Judaism in the modern period more broadly. Finally, the epilogue looks ahead to the inter-revolutionary period (1906-1917) and the Soviet period when conversions from Judaism accelerated, accompanied by a growing ethnic conception of Jewish identity whereby national Jewishness found explicit harmony with Christian religious adherence.

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