Background
Blum, Jerome was born on April 27, 1913 in Baltimore. Son of Moses and Fannie (Herzfeld) Blum.
( To understand Russian history without understanding ser...)
To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate attention upon its publication in 1961, a year that also marked the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation of the Russian serfs. As one reviewer remarked, "No better book on the subject exists; it is indispensable to the serious student of Russia." On a scale befitting Russia--a sixth of the earth's land mass--Blum's book explored in almost seven hundred pages the legal and social evolution of its predominantly agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship. More important, Blum was the first to articulate the necessity of placing serfs front and center in the study of Russian history. As a reviewer for the Economist wrote, "Mr. Blum has written not just a monograph on landlords and peasants in Russia but a history of Russia from a particular point of view. There is no denying that the history of a country where . . . a bare 13 percent of the population was urban can with impunity be written in terms of landlords and peasants." In 1962, it was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association; it remains a cornerstone of Russian historiography.
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( To understand Russian history without understanding ser...)
To understand Russian history without understanding serfdom--the peasant-lord relationship that shaped Russia for centuries--is impossible. Still, before Jerome Blum, no scholar had tackled the subject in depth. Monumental in scope and pathbreaking in its analysis, Lord and Peasant in Russia garnered immediate attention upon its publication in 1961, a year that also marked the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation of the Russian serfs. As one reviewer remarked, "No better book on the subject exists; it is indispensable to the serious student of Russia." On a scale befitting Russia--a sixth of the earth's land mass--Blum's book explored in almost seven hundred pages the legal and social evolution of its predominantly agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship. More important, Blum was the first to articulate the necessity of placing serfs front and center in the study of Russian history. As a reviewer for the Economist wrote, "Mr. Blum has written not just a monograph on landlords and peasants in Russia but a history of Russia from a particular point of view. There is no denying that the history of a country where . . . a bare 13 percent of the population was urban can with impunity be written in terms of landlords and peasants." In 1962, it was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association; it remains a cornerstone of Russian historiography.
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Blum, Jerome was born on April 27, 1913 in Baltimore. Son of Moses and Fannie (Herzfeld) Blum.
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1933; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1947.
Faculty, Princeton University, 1947-1981; professor of history, department chairman, Princeton University, 1961-1967; James Madison preceptor, Princeton University, 1952-1955; master Graduate College, Princeton University, 1958-1978; Henry Charles Lea professor of history, Princeton University, 1966-1981. Lawrence lecturer Connecticut College, 1968. Schouler lecturer Johns Hopkins University, 1974.
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President board managers New Jersey State Home for Girls, 1965-1969. Chairman Ad Hoc Committee on Children's Services New Jersey, 1966-1968. Board directors Morrow Association on Correction, 1968-1971, Citizens Commission for Children New Jersey, 1971-1973.
Member Mercer County Mental Health Board, 1972-1974. Trustee Princeton University Press, 1966-1970. Served from private to captain Field Artillery Army of the United States, 1942-1946.
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Philosophical Society (Henry Allen Moe prize in humanities 1982), American History Association (Herbert Baxter Adams prize 1962, Higby prize 1972), Agricultural History Society (president 1981-1982). Clubs: Nassau (Princeton).