The plunging figures indicate that Russian authorities' attempts to boost the birth rate have had almost no effect, a Russian ...

A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish ... Yiddish, Polish and Russian. As a result of ...

Freeze explores the impact of dramatic social and institutional change on marriage and divorce among Jews in 19th-century Russia ... history and culture of the Jews of Russia with special attention to ...