How Jews gained their education in Kiev, 1860–1917

Khiterer focuses on Kiev, which had a unique status and thus special residential and other laws for Jews. She shows how a ban on Jewish schools before 1901 led to a cat-and-mouse game between the authorities and local Jews who were establishing illegal institutions. At the same time Jews from elsewhere sought to enter Kiev in order to enter the Russian schools there. This became more difficult after the introduction of strict quotas on Jewish students in 1887