“According to the Law of Moses and Israel”: Jewish Marriages outside the Pale of Settlement (with Reference to the Materials of the Yekaterinburg Jewish Religious Community) by Elena Mikhailovna Glavatskaya, Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Zabolotnykh

“…This article analyses religious marriages which played an important role in preserving the identity of the Jewish urban population beyond the Pale of Settlement. It considers the basic legal provisions regulating Jewish marriages. …”
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Russian-Jewish Intellectuals outside the Pale of Settlement at the Beginning of 20th Century: in Search of Identity (Doctor I. Ya. Meerovich in Yekaterinodar) by E. S. Norkina

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КИШИНЕВСКИЙ ПОГРОМ 1903 Г. И «ТЕОРИЯ ЗАГОВОРА» (ПО ДОКУМЕНТАМ ИЗ АРХИВА В. К. ПЛЕВЕ)

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СОЦІАЛЬНА СТРУКТУРА ЄВРЕЙСЬКОГО НАСЕЛЕННЯ РОСІЙСЬКОЇ ІМПЕРІЇ НАПРИКІНЦІ ХIХ СТОЛІТТЯ / THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE JEWISH POPULATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CE... by Олександр БЕЗАРОВ

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Maurice Hindus and American Reporting from the Soviet Russia in the 1920–30s by Irina V. Kabanova

“…Hindus (1891–1969) was born within the Pale of Settlement in Imperial Russia,M. Hindus (1891–1969) was born within the Pale of Settlement in Imperial Russia,at fourteen emigrated to the US, got degrees in Russian literature and History ofRussian peasantry from Colgate and Harvard. …”
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GLOBALIZING DOIKAYT: HOW THE BUND BECAME TRANSNATIONAL by WOLFF FRANK

“…In contrast to the global dispersion of the post-Second World War Bund, examination of its previous history as a powerful and influential force in Jewish life is usually confined to the former Pale of Settlement. Without disputing its centers of gravity in Russia and Poland, the paper argues for the inclusion also of the effects of migration and transatlantic network-building within this picture. …”
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Issues of Gender, Sovietization and Modernization in the Jewish Metropolis of Minsk. by Elissa Bemporad

“…By using the case study of Minsk - a historic Jewish center in pre-revolutionary Russia, and capital of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic after 1917 - this article explores the Sovietization and modernization of Jewish women in an urban setting of the former Pale of Settlement during the 1920s. The study of a “Jewish metropolis” like Minsk, situated in the heart of the pre-1917 territory of designated Jewish residence, provides a better insight into the ways in which most Jewish women adjusted to the Bolshevik rise to power, negotiated between Communism and Jewish identity, and integrated into Soviet society. …”
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Формирование еврейской интеллигенции Гродненской губернии (конец XIX – начало ХХ вв.) by Olga Sobolevskaya

“…The conclusion was made, that in rapid conditions of westernization of traditional Jewish culture on the border of XIX–XX centuries in Byelorussian part of Jewish Pale of settlement, the opportunity to take new status positions was opened before youths who received secular education in state educational institutions. …”
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Community Based Music Information Retrieval: A Case Study of Digitizing Historical Klezmer Manuscripts from Kyiv by Yonatan Malin, Christina Crowder, Clara Byom, Daniel Shanahan

“…Much of the music was collected by pioneering Belarusian ethnographer Zusman Kiselgof among Jewish communities in the ‘Pale of Settlement’ (mostly in modern Ukraine and Belarus) during the An-Ski Expeditions of 1912–1914. …”
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Jewish Pogroms in the Historical Context of the First Russian Revolution by Oleksandr Bezarov

“…Accordingly, Russian Jewry again turned into a hostage in the confrontation of the autocracy with the opposition political groups, and the territory of the Jewish Pale of Settlement remained a human capacity and source of energy in the development of the Russian revolutionary movement in subsequent years as well, because if the autocracy succeeded in breaking out the victory of the hands of Jewish revolutionaries in 1905 – 1907, it was only at the cost of victims of their own citizens. …”
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The Ural Population Project. Demography and Culture From Microdata in a European-Asian Border Region by Elena Glavatskaya, Julia Borovik, Gunnar Thorvaldsen

“…We found that the Jewish population kept their traditions and connections with relatives in the Pale of Settlement. Prisoners of WWI usually marrying within their own religious group. …”
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The relations between the Jewish Bund and the RSDRP, 1897-1903 by Shukman, H, Shukman, H.

“…The turn to mass agitation for economic demands as a means of awakening the political consciousness of the masses was given theoretical justification by a leading Vilna Social Democrat, Arkadi Kremer, in <em>Ob Agitatsii</em> (1894)</p> <p>By the mid-nineties a politically led labour movement, centred on Vilna, had developed in the north-west region of the Jewish Pale of Settlement, The leaders of this movement were closely associated with the Social Democrats of St. …”

Political terror and the right-wing movement (The case of Vladimir Governorate) by Igor' V. Omel'yanchuk

“…Thus, the pogroms of October 1905 which took place outside the Pale of Settlement were directed not so much against the Jews as against the revolutionaries (a considerable part of them were Jews). …”
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