title: Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs
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metadata.value: Freeze, ChaeRan Y.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Freeze, Gregory L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T21:05:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T21:05:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Freeze Ch. Y., Freeze G. L. Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 1, рр. 108–120.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17505
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metadata.value: Recently historians have come to recognize the need to go beyond national history and to acknowledge
  the transnational, which became so important in the globalization of 1870–1914.
  It is no less essential to expand the focus beyond economics alone and to consider the array
  of other factors, especially cultural and religious, that were ever more powerful and capable of
  transcending national boundaries. One key analytic framework in recent scholarship is “intimacy,”
  which focuses on the social nexus and political connections that were so critical in the
  rise of the new industrial-financial elites across Europe. This paper examines the case of the
  Poliakovs, a Russian Jewish family that began as petty merchants in the Pale of Settlement but
  became leading bankers, railroad barons, and factory owners in late Imperial Russia. Drawing
  on family records (especially the diaries of two family members) but also an array of archival
  and printed sources (including the societal pages of leading French and German newspapers),
  this paper examines: a) how the Poliakovs learned to “perform” successfully in aristocratic
  high society; b) how and why that performance was so critical to the family’s perceived affluence
  (and hence the credibility of their various businesses); c) how the transnational served
  simultaneously to cement the family’s status in the Russian elite and to become part of the
  Jewish diaspora (not only to promote business but to avoid intermarriage). This was a family
  business in the fullest sense: the family was the business.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by grant No. 15-18-00119 from the Russian Science Foundation.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jews
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transnational
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intimacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociability
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philanthropy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Poliakovs
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Transnational Diaspora: Interaction of Jewish Elites and the Poliakovs
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metadata.value: Article
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