The construction policy of the St. Petersburg Jewish community began in the 1860s and continued until the outbreak of the World War I in 1914. An elitist institution that included several hundred wealthy Jews, we discover the ways in which the Jewish communal construction in St. Petersburg had significance for the history of Russian Jewry as a whole and bore influence on European Jewish history.
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