The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement by Nathaniel Deutsch Sale Books Achieving a most unlikely success

Achieving a most unlikely success through their productions

All original music by the Klezmatics

even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined--a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished

and a keen understanding of Yiddish art and literature

John Shea with an introduction by Aaron Lansky

The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement by Nathaniel Deutsch Sale Books Achieving a most unlikely successAt the turn of the twentieth century, over forty percent of the worlds Jews lived within the Russian Empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, the Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders. This led the historian Simon Dubnow to label the territory a Jewish Dark Continent. Just before World War I, a socialist revolutionary and aspiring ethnographer named An sky pledged to