TY - BOOK AU - Lapidus,Rina TI - Russian Ideational Roots of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature SN - 9798887194028 AV - PN842 U1 - 809/.8921296 23//eng/20231019eng PY - 2024///] CY - Boston, MA PB - Academic Studies Press KW - Hebrew literature KW - 19th century KW - Russian influences KW - DLC KW - 20th century KW - Ideology in literature KW - Jewish literature KW - Jews KW - Europe, Central KW - Intellectual life KW - Europe, Eastern KW - National characteristics in literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish KW - bisacsh KW - Haskala KW - Jewish life KW - Jewish national movement KW - Jewish thought KW - Russian literature KW - Russian thought N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: Russian Ideational Roots of the Jewish Enlightenment and Hebrew Literature --; Part I: The Russian Roots of the National Ideas of the Jewish Enlightenment and Zionist Movements in the Russian Empire: Y. L. Gordon, Peretz Smolenskin, Y. L. Pinsker, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda --; Chapter 1: Roots of the National Ideas of the Haskalah in the Russian Empire --; Chapter 2: The Development of Jewish Nationalist Consciousness as Reflected in Scholarly Literature --; Chapter 3: A Comparison of the Views of Y. L. Gordon and Russian Thinkers --; Chapter 4: A Comparison between the National Views of L. S. Pinsker and Those of Petr Chaadayev, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Vyacheslav Ivanov --; Part II: Russian Ideational Influences as Expressed in Hebrew Literary Works --; Chapter 5: The Russian Theological Novel and Its Ideological Incarnation in Hebrew Literature --; Chapter 6: The Epic Poem Songs of Glory by Naphtali Herz Wessely --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature. Through a comparative analysis of an extensive corpus of writings by renowned Russian and Jewish thinkers, the book reveals how ideas regarding the need for a national awakening penetrated from Russian to Jewish thought. The Jewish thinkers who embraced these notions adapted them to the reality and experience of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Likewise, portrayals of an individual’s quest for the authentic and just God in Russian literary works gained purchase in ideological Hebrew literature, where the hero searches for a true path to achieve spiritual, social, and national well-being for the Jewish people. Absorption of ideological influences is a universal phenomenon that is instrumental to progress and cultural development, and it is accepted in Jewish culture as well UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887194028 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887194028 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887194028/original ER -