Jewish renaissance in the Russian revolution /
Moss, Kenneth B., 1974-
Jewish renaissance in the Russian revolution / Kenneth B. Moss. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (x, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The time for words has passed -- The constitution of culture -- Unfettering Hebrew and Yiddish culture -- To make our masses intellectual -- The liberation of the Jewish individual -- The imperatives of revolution -- Making Jewish culture Bolshevik.
Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a 'Jewish renaissance'. Here, Kenneth Moss offers a comprehensive look at this movement. Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." At the heart of their program lay a radically new vision of Jewish culture predicated not on religion but on art and secular individuality, national in scope yet cosmopolitan in content, framed by a fierce devotion to Hebrew or Yiddish yet obsessed with importing and participating in the shared culture of Europe and the world. These cultural warriors sought to recast themselves and other Jews not only as a modern nation but as a nation of moderns. Kenneth Moss offers the first comprehensive look at this fascinating moment in Jewish and Russian history. He examines what these numerous would-be cultural revolutionaries, such as El Lissitzky and Haim Nahman Bialik, meant by a new Jewish culture, and details their fierce disagreements but also their shared assumptions about what culture was and why it was so important. In close readings of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian texts, he traces how they sought to realize their ideals in practice as writers, artists, and thinkers in the burgeoning cultural centers of Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. And he reveals what happened to them and their ideals as the Bolsheviks consolidated their hold over cultural life. Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.
In English.
9780674054318 0674054318
10.4159/9780674054318 doi
22573/ctt13486h9 JSTOR
GBA978978 bnb
Uk Uk
1900-1999
Jews--Intellectual life--Russia--20th century.
Hebrew language--Social aspects--History--Russia--20th century.
Yiddish language--Social aspects--History--Russia--20th century.
Language and culture.
Juifs--Vie intellectuelle--Russie--20e siècle.
Yiddish (Langue)--Aspect social--Histoire--Russie--20e siècle.
Langage et culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
HISTORY--Modern--20th Century.
Hebrew language--Social aspects
Intellectual life
Jews--Intellectual life
Language and culture
Yiddish language--Social aspects
Intellektueller
Kulturwandel
History.
Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Russia
Russia (Federation)
Russland
Juden.
History
DS134.82 / .M67 2009eb
305.892/404709041
Jewish renaissance in the Russian revolution / Kenneth B. Moss. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (x, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The time for words has passed -- The constitution of culture -- Unfettering Hebrew and Yiddish culture -- To make our masses intellectual -- The liberation of the Jewish individual -- The imperatives of revolution -- Making Jewish culture Bolshevik.
Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a 'Jewish renaissance'. Here, Kenneth Moss offers a comprehensive look at this movement. Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." At the heart of their program lay a radically new vision of Jewish culture predicated not on religion but on art and secular individuality, national in scope yet cosmopolitan in content, framed by a fierce devotion to Hebrew or Yiddish yet obsessed with importing and participating in the shared culture of Europe and the world. These cultural warriors sought to recast themselves and other Jews not only as a modern nation but as a nation of moderns. Kenneth Moss offers the first comprehensive look at this fascinating moment in Jewish and Russian history. He examines what these numerous would-be cultural revolutionaries, such as El Lissitzky and Haim Nahman Bialik, meant by a new Jewish culture, and details their fierce disagreements but also their shared assumptions about what culture was and why it was so important. In close readings of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian texts, he traces how they sought to realize their ideals in practice as writers, artists, and thinkers in the burgeoning cultural centers of Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. And he reveals what happened to them and their ideals as the Bolsheviks consolidated their hold over cultural life. Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.
In English.
9780674054318 0674054318
10.4159/9780674054318 doi
22573/ctt13486h9 JSTOR
GBA978978 bnb
Uk Uk
1900-1999
Jews--Intellectual life--Russia--20th century.
Hebrew language--Social aspects--History--Russia--20th century.
Yiddish language--Social aspects--History--Russia--20th century.
Language and culture.
Juifs--Vie intellectuelle--Russie--20e siècle.
Yiddish (Langue)--Aspect social--Histoire--Russie--20e siècle.
Langage et culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
HISTORY--Modern--20th Century.
Hebrew language--Social aspects
Intellectual life
Jews--Intellectual life
Language and culture
Yiddish language--Social aspects
Intellektueller
Kulturwandel
History.
Russia (Federation)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Russia
Russia (Federation)
Russland
Juden.
History
DS134.82 / .M67 2009eb
305.892/404709041