Russian Idea-Jewish Presence Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life

In Russian Idea-Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Horowitz, Brian, author (author)
Autor Corporativo: National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program funder (funder)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press [2017]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on transliteration
  • Introduction
  • I. Varieties of Russian-Jewish History: Liberals, Zionists, and Diaspora Nationalists
  • 1. The Russian Roots of Semyon Dubnov's Life and Thought
  • 2. Maxim Vinaver and the First Russian State Duma
  • 3. What Is "Russian" in Russian Zionism? Synthetic Zionism and the Fate of Avram Idel'son
  • 4. An Innovative Agent of an Alternative Jewish Politics: The Odessa Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia
  • 5. Politics and National Self-Projection: The Image of Jewish Masses in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914
  • 6. "Both Crisis and Continuity": A Reinterpretation of Late-Tsarist Russian Jewry
  • 7. Crystallizing Memory: Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia Abroad and Forms of Self-Projection
  • II. M. O. Gershenzon and the Intellectual Life of Russia's Silver Age
  • 8. M. O. Gershenzon - Metaphysical Historian of Russia's Silver Age: Part 1
  • 9. M. O. Gershenzon - Metaphysical Historian of Russia's Silver Age: Part 2
  • 10. "...To Break Free of Centuries-Old Complications, of the Abominable Fetters of Social and Abstract Ideas": M. O. Gershenzon's Side in the Correspondence Across a Room
  • 11. Unity and Disunity in Landmarks (Vekhi): The Rivalry between Pyotr Struve and Mikhail Gershenzon
  • 12. M. O. Gershenzon and Georges Florovsky: Metaphysical Philosophers of Russian History
  • 13. From the Annals of the Literary Life of Russia's Silver Age: The Tempestuous Relationship of S. A. Vengerov and M. O. Gershenzon
  • 14. M. O. Gershenzon, the Intellectual Circle, and the Perception of Leader in Russia's Silver-Age Culture
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A: Jewish Monuments in Russia at the Turn of the 20th Century (From the William Brumfield Collection)
  • Appendix B: Rare Photographs of Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon and his Family
  • Index