https://russianlife.com paulr@storyworkz.com https://www.masacms.com Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:15:31 GMT en-us https://russianlife.com/shop/books/jews-in-service-to-the-tsar/1D688F07-5056-A32F-D57B0FB11DFC7FF9 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:00:00 GMT <p>Benjamin Disraeli advised, &ldquo;Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.&rdquo; With<a href="http://store.russianlife.com/jews-in-service-to-the-tsar/"> <em>Jews in Service to the Tsar</em></a>, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe&rsquo;s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about the role of Jews in Russian history.</p> HistoryNonfiction