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The Russian-Jewish Tradition : Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries / Brian Horowitz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their LegacyPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (310 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781618115560
  • 9781618115577
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS134.84 .H685 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Russian-Jewish Historians and Historiography -- Part II: Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia's Cultural Vibrancy -- PART III: Jewish Heritage in Russian Perception -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. In their diasporic cultural creations Russia's Jews employed the general themes of artists under tsars and Soviets, but they modified these themes to fit their own needs. The result was a hybrid, Russian-Jewish culture, unique and dynamic. Few today consider that Jewish Eastern Europe, the "old world", was in fact a power incubator of modern Jewish consciousness. Brian Horowitz, a well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, presents essays on Jewish education (the heder), historiography, literature and Jewish philosophy that intersect with contemporary interests on the big questions of Jewish life. The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Russian-Jewish Historians and Historiography -- Part II: Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia's Cultural Vibrancy -- PART III: Jewish Heritage in Russian Perception -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. In their diasporic cultural creations Russia's Jews employed the general themes of artists under tsars and Soviets, but they modified these themes to fit their own needs. The result was a hybrid, Russian-Jewish culture, unique and dynamic. Few today consider that Jewish Eastern Europe, the "old world", was in fact a power incubator of modern Jewish consciousness. Brian Horowitz, a well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, presents essays on Jewish education (the heder), historiography, literature and Jewish philosophy that intersect with contemporary interests on the big questions of Jewish life. The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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