Crisis, revolution, and Russian Jews / Jonathan Frankel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frankel, Jonathan.

Contributor:

Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Russia--Politics and government--20th century.

Jewish socialists--Russia--History--20th century.

Jewish socialists.

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Intellectual life.

Labor Zionism--History--20th century.

Labor Zionism.

History.

Intellectual life.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Politics and government.

Eastern Europe.

Russia.

Physical Description:

x, 324 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Crisis as a factor in modern Jewish politics,1840 and 1881-1882

Jewish politics and the press: the "reception" of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1860)

Jewish politics and the Russian revolution of 1905

"Youth in revolt": An-sky's In Shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905

Yosef Haim Brenner, the "half-intelligentsia," and Russian-Jewish politics (1899-1908)

The paradoxical politics of marginality: thoughts on the Jewish situation during the years 1914-1921

The socialist opposition to Zionism in historical perspective

The "Yizkor" book of 1911: a note on national myths in the Second Aliya

The Bundists in America and the "Zionist problem"

S.M. Dubnov: historian and ideologist

Assimilation and the Jews in ninteenth-century Europe: towards a new historiography?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Althea Hottel and Abraham S. Hottel, Jr. Fund.

ISBN:

9780521513647

0521513642

OCLC:

226304827

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