Essays in Jewish social and economic history / Arcadius Kahan ; edited by Roger Weiss ; with an introduction by Jonathan Frankel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The impact of industrialization in Tsarist Russia on the socioeconomic conditions of the Jewish population -- The urbanization process of the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe -- Notes on Jewish entrepreneurship in Tsarist Russia -- Economic opportunities and some pilgrims' progress: Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in the United States, 1890-1914 -- The first wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States -- Jewish life in the United States: Perspectives from economics -- Vilna: The sociocultural anatomy of a Jewish community in interwar Poland -- Introduction of Czeslaw Milosz -- The University of Vilna -- A day in the ghetto -- Forces for and against Jewish identity in the USSR -- Religion and Soviet policy: The case of Judaism -- The Soviet Jews.