The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews / edited by Stefani Hoffman and Ezra Mendelsohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffman, Stefani.

Mendelsohn, Ezra.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Russia--History--20th century.

Jews.

History.

Russia--History--Revolution, 1905-1907.

Russia.

Physical Description:

ix, 320 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

Contents:

Part I Reassessing the 1905 Revolution

1 Interpreting 1905 / Abraham Ascher 15

2 Nicholas II and the Revolution / Richard Wortman 31

Part II The Old Regime Confronts Its "Jewish Question"

3 A Note on the Jewish Press and Censorship during the First Russian Revolution / Dmitrii Elyashevich 49

4 The Russian Right Responds to 1905: Visual Depictions of Jews in Postrevolutionary Russia / Robert Weinberg 55

5 The "Jewish Question" in the Tsarist Army in the Early Twentieth Century / Semion Goldin 70

Part III 1905 As a Crossroads for the Empire's Jews

6 Victory from Defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia / Brian Horowitz 79

7 The Generation of 1905 and the Politics of Despair: Alienation, Friendship, Community / Scott Ury 96

8 The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction / Vladimir Levin 111

9 1905 as a Watershed in Polish-Jewish Relations / Theodore R. Weeks 128

Part IV Cultural Reflections of Revolution

10 Polish Literature's Portrayal of Jewish Involvement in 1905 / Agnieszka Friedrich 143

11 Rebellion in Writing: Yosef Haim Brenner and the 1905 Revolution / Hannan Hever 152

12 The Revolutionary Origins of Yiddish Scholarship, 1903-1917 / Barry Trachtenberg 174

13 1905 as a Jewish Cultural Revolution? Revolutionary and Evolutionary Dynamics in the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, 1900-1914 / Kenneth B. Moss 185

14 Jewish Cultural Associations in the Aftermath of 1905 / Jeffrey Veidlinger 199

15 Writing between the Lines: 1905 in the Soviet Yiddish Novel of the Stalinist Period / Mikhail Krutikov 212

Part V Overseas Ripples: 1905 and American Jewry

16 The 1905 Revolution Abroad: Mass Migration, Russian Jewish Liberalism, and American Jewry, 1903-1914 / Rebecca Kobrin 227

17 Democracy and Assimilation: The Jews, America, and the Russian Crisis from Kishinev to the End of World War I / Eli Lederhendler 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-305) and index.

ISBN:

9780812240641

0812240642

OCLC:

183261758