Literacy Among the Jews of Russia in 1897: A Reanalysis of Census Data

Joel Perlmann
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Joel Perlmann: The Jerome Levy Economics Institute

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Abstract: One part of this paper is methodological, or bibliographical in nature; I argue that a body of evidence that scholars have dismissed for a century as useless may in fact be very valuable. The evidence to which I refer is data on Jewish literacy found in the 1897 Census of the Russian Empire. A second part of this paper is substantive in nature; in it I offer an interpretation of a crucial social pattern observed in the literacy data.

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Date: 1998-02-26
Note: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC; to print on PostScript; pages: 25; figures: included

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