From pork to kapores: transformations in religious practice among the Jews of late imperial Kiev. From: The Jewish Quarterly Review | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Meir, Natan | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Pennsylvania Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

SCHOLARSHIP ON THE HISTORY of imperial Russian Jewry has paid scant attention to the religious practices of Jews, often assuming a monolithic traditionalism on the part of most Jews alongside a widespread secularism among acculturated, nationalist, and socialist Jews. Several isolated articles have probed the question of religious reform in the Russian Empire, often looking for ideologically motivated religious change, or reform within institutions such as synagogues. (1) Twenty ye...