{"id":152,"date":"2015-11-30T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?p=152"},"modified":"2016-01-13T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T19:04:56","slug":"the-cantonist-struggle-and-the-birth-of-the-new-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/past-issues\/the-cantonist-struggle-and-the-birth-of-the-new-jew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cantonist Struggle and the Birth of the New Jew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The author of this article has worked hard to combine the Cantonist memoirs, testimonies and poems with official surviving imperial decrees and dispatches, to provide a balanced narrative of how the Cantonist system contributed to the original assimilation and renewal of Jewish identity in the late Imperial era.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, while Nicholas I&#8217;s Cantonist system was successful in undermining the autonomous authority of the Kahal and in partially Russifying the Jewish minority, it failed to fully assimilate Russia&#8217;s Jews, due to the awakening of Jewish identity by institutionalized anti-Semitism and feelings of otherness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Aaron Bornstein<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2015\/11\/HIS002_CR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for full publication.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The author of this article has worked hard to combine the Cantonist memoirs, testimonies and poems with official surviving imperial decrees and dispatches, to provide a balanced narrative of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}