Jewish renaissance in the Russian revolution / Kenneth B. Moss.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Moss, Kenneth B., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jews--Russia--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Hebrew language--Social aspects--Russia--History--20th century.
• Yiddish language--Social aspects--Russia--History--20th century.
• Yiddish language--Social aspects.
• History.
• Yiddish language.
• Hebrew language--Social aspects.
• Hebrew language.
• Jews.
• Intellectual life.
• Russia--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Russia.
• Language and culture.
• Jews--Intellectual life.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

x, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Winner, 2010

ISBN:

• 9780674035102
• 0674035100

OCLC:

312445110