Imagining Russian Jewry

Author : Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295802312

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Imagining Russian Jewry by Steven J. Zipperstein Pdf

This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including novels, plays, and archival material—Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.

Author : Benjamin Nathans
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520208308

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Beyond the Pale by Benjamin Nathans Pdf

"Nathans's deeply researched and meticulously argued book takes us into the drawing rooms and offices of successful Jews of St. Petersburg and greatly enhances our understanding not only of Jewish intellectual, political, and professional leadership but of Russian politics and society as well."—Richard Stites, author of Russian Popular Culture "The work of an extremely talented and intelligent historian. It breaks new ground both conceptually and substantively."—Michael Stanislawski, author of Zionism and the Fin de Siècle "Ben Nathans moves in this remarkable book well beyond the standard spatial as well as conceptual boundaries typically associated with prerevolutionary Russian Jewry. It is the work of a splendid historian who negotiates brilliantly the borders of Russian and Jewish history, and manages to link the two persuasively in an original, lucid narrative."—Steven J. Zipperstein, author of Imagining Russian Jewry

Author : Olga Litvak
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253000774

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Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry by Olga Litvak Pdf

"Olga Litvak has written a book of astonishing originality and intellectual force.... In vivid prose, she takes the reader on a journey through the Russian-Jewish literary imagination." -- Benjamin Nathans Russian Jews were first conscripted into the Imperial Russian army during the reign of Nicholas I in an effort to integrate them into the population of the Russian Empire. Conscripted minors were to serve, in practical terms, for life. Although this system was abandoned by his successor, the conscription experience remained traumatic in the popular memory and gave rise to a large and continuing literature that often depicted Jewish soldiers as heroes. This imaginative and intellectually ambitious book traces the conscription theme in novels and stories by some of the best-known Russian Jewish writers such as Osip Rabinovich, Judah-Leib Gordon, and Mendele Mokher Seforim, as well as by relatively unknown writers. Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.

Author : Evan R. Chesler
Publisher : Behrman House Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002172271

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The Russian Jewry Reader by Evan R. Chesler Pdf

Presents the history of Jews in Russia, particularly since 1917, through newspaper articles and excerpts from contemporary literature and discusses the position and specific problems of the Jewish people in Soviet society.

Author : Leonid Livak
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804775625

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The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination by Leonid Livak Pdf

This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Babel, and others, the author argues that these European writers—Christian, secular, and Jewish—based their representation of Jews on the Christian exegetical tradition of anti-Judaism. Indeed, Livak disputes the classification of some Jewish writers as belonging to "Jewish literature," arguing that such an approach obscures these writers' debt to European literary traditions and their ambivalence about their Jewishness. This work seeks to move the study of Russian literature, and Russian-Jewish literature in particular, down a new path. It will stir up controversy around Christian-Jewish cultural interaction; the representation of otherness in European arts and folklore; modern Jewish experience; and Russian literature and culture.

Author : Orbach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004672758

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New Voices of Russian Jewry by Orbach Pdf

Author : I︠A︡. G. Frumkin,Gregor Aronson,Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich Golʹdenveĭzer
Publisher : A. S. Barnes
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015007071304

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Russian Jewry: 1917-1967 by I︠A︡. G. Frumkin,Gregor Aronson,Alekseĭ Aleksandrovich Golʹdenveĭzer Pdf

Author : Union of Russian Jews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015012415694

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Russian Jewry: 1860-1917 by Union of Russian Jews Pdf

Author : Henry Iliowizi
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0365389943

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In the Pale by Henry Iliowizi Pdf

Excerpt from In the Pale: Stories and Legends of the Russian Jews That the Russian Jew is in possession of enough material for tales of woe, needed no demonstration. What the world does not yet appreciate is his optimism, his readiness to laugh at the humorous sides of life, and his ability to make others laugh at them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805242461

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Where the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen Pdf

From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration. In 1929, the Soviet government set aside a sparsely populated area in the Soviet Far East for settlement by Jews. The place was called Birobidzhan.The idea of an autonomous Jewish region was championed by Jewish Communists, Yiddishists, and intellectuals, who envisioned a haven of post-oppression Jewish culture. By the mid-1930s tens of thousands of Soviet Jews, as well as about a thousand Jews from abroad, had moved there. The state-building ended quickly, in the late 1930s, with arrests and purges instigated by Stalin. But after the Second World War, Birobidzhan received another influx of Jews—those who had been dispossessed by the war. In the late 1940s a second wave of arrests and imprisonments swept through the area, traumatizing Birobidzhan’s Jews into silence and effectively shutting down most of the Jewish cultural enterprises that had been created. Where the Jews Aren’t is a haunting account of the dream of Birobidzhan—and how it became the cracked and crooked mirror in which we can see the true story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia. (Part of the Jewish Encounters series)

Author : Elie Wiesel
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805242973

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The Jews of Silence by Elie Wiesel Pdf

In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews who had never been placed in the Soviet show window by Soviet authorities,” wrote Wiesel. “They alone, in their anonymity, could describe the conditions under which they live; they alone could tell whether the reports I had heard were true or false—and whether their children and their grandchildren, despite everything, still wish to remain Jews. From them I would learn what we must do to help . . . or if they want our help at all.” What he discovered astonished him: Jewish men and women, young and old, in Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Vilna, Minsk, and Tbilisi, completely cut off from the outside world, overcoming their fear of the ever-present KGB to ask Wiesel about the lives of Jews in America, in Western Europe, and, most of all, in Israel. They have scant knowledge of Jewish history or current events; they celebrate Jewish holidays at considerable risk and with only the vaguest ideas of what these days commemorate. “Most of them come [to synagogue] not to pray,” Wiesel writes, “but out of a desire to identify with the Jewish people—about whom they know next to nothing.” Wiesel promises to bring the stories of these people to the outside world. And in the home of one dissident, he is given a gift—a Russian-language translation of Night, published illegally by the underground. “‘My God,’ I thought, ‘this man risked arrest and prison just to make my writing available to people here!’ I embraced him with tears in my eyes.”

Author : Sasha Senderovich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780674238190

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How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich Pdf

In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world.

Author : Herman Branover,Isaiah Berlin,Zeev Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004213753

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The Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry: Biographies, A-I by Herman Branover,Isaiah Berlin,Zeev Wagner Pdf

This is the first volume of a seven-volume project, The Encyclopedia Russian Jewry. Volume I concerns itself with personalities who e made a contribution to Russian culture. This is an extremely important project; one could even call it historic. The Editor-in-Chief is Herman Branover.

Author : Brian Horowitz
Publisher : Jews of Russia & Eastern Europ
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1618115561

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The Russian-Jewish Tradition by Brian Horowitz Pdf

Brian Horowitz, the well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.

Author : I͡A. G. Frumkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0498060470

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Russian Jewry by I͡A. G. Frumkin Pdf