The Russian Jewish diaspora and European culture, 1917-1937 / edited by Jorg Schulte, Olga Tabachnikova, Peter Wagstaff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schulte, Jörg.

Tabachnikova, Olga, 1967-

Wagstaff, Peter

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica ; 13.

IJS studies in Judaica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews, Russian--Europe--Intellectual life--20th century--Congresses.

Jews, Russian.

Jews--Russia--Intellectual life--20th century--Congresses.

Jews.

Intellectual life.

Russia--Ethnic relations.

Russia.

Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 443 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Boston : Brill, [2012]

Summary:

The Institute of Jewish Studies, founded in 1954 by the late Alexander Altmann, is dedicated to the promotion of all aspects of scholarship in Jewish Studies and related fields. Its programmes include public lectures, seminars, and annual conferences. All lectures and conferences are open to the general public.

The Jewish emigration from Russia after the Revolution of 1917 changed the face of Jewish culture in Western Europe. Russian Jews brought with them the visions of a national Jewish literature in Hebrew, Yiddish or Russian, and new concepts of secular Jewish music and art. Often they acted as intermediaries between Jewish centres in Europe, which resulted in the creation of a single sphere of Jewish culture common to all parts of the European diaspora. Although some stayed in Western Europe for only a few years before moving on the Palestine, the budding Hebrew culture in Palestine would not have been he same without this relatively short period of intense contact between Russian Jewish and Western European cultures. Book jacket.

Contents:

Russian-Jewish Cultural Retention in Early Twentieth Century Western Europe: Contexts and Theoretical Implications / François Guesnet Guesnet, François 1

Part 1 Russian Jewish Translators and Writers

Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in Bialik's Translation / Anat Feinberg Feinberg, Anat 11

Bialik's Translation of Don Quixoite (1912/1923) / Marianna Prigozhina Prigozhina, Marianna 25

Vogel and the City / Glenda Abramson Abramson, Glenda 37

Marginalia of the Hebrew Renaissance: The Enrichment of Literary Hebrew through Calques of Russian Phrases in the Works of Elisheva and Leah Goldberg / Zoya Kopelman Kopelman, Zoya 55

Part 2 Interpretations of Past and Present of Jewish Culture

Russian-Jewish Ideas in German Dress: Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing Reformers of Jewish Antiquity / Albert I. Baumgarten Baumgarten, Albert I. 73

Nahum Soluschz (1871-1966) and His Contribution to the Hebrew Renaissance / Jörg Schulte Schulte, Jörg 109

Cultural Anxieties of Russian-Jewish Émigrés: Max Eitingon and Lev Shestov / Olga Tabachnikova Tabachnikova, Olga 127

Pinhas Rutenberg and Vladimir Burstev: Some Unknown Aspects of the Connection between Palestine and the Russian Emigration in Europe / Vladimir Khazan Khazan, Vladimir 147

An Enclave in Time? Russian-Jewish Berlin Revisited / Olaf Terpitz Terpitz, Olaf 179

Bergelson, Benjamin and Berlin: Justice Deferred / Harriet Murav Murav, Harriet 201

Part 3 New Sources on Russian Jewish Influences in Music, Art and Publishing

If Moscow Were Paris: Russia, the Soviet Union and Birobidzhan As Points of Reference in the Yiddish Press of Paris / Agnieszka W. Wierzcholska Wierzcholska, Agnieszka W. 221

Der Einfluss der jüdischen kulturellen Renaissance in Osteuropa auf das Musikleben in Wien (1919-1938) / Jascha Nemtsov Nemtsov, Jascha 237

The Graphic Work of Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935): An Outstanding Example of Children's Book Art / Serge-Alijosja Stommels Stommels, Serge-Alijosja, Albert Lemmens Lemmens, Albert 279

'A Beautiful Lie'-Zhar Plitsa (The Firebird): Sustaining Journalistic Activity and Showcasing Russia in 1920s Berlin / Susanne Marten-Finnis Marten-Finnis, Susanne 301

The Absence of a Jewish Russian Legacy in France: Ben-Ami's Testimony and the Schwartzbard Affair / Boris Czerny Czerny, Boris 327

Ideology and Identity: El Lissitzky in Berlin / Christina Lodder Lodder, Christina 339

Part Four Repositories of the Russian Jewish Diaspora

Simon Dubnow and the Question of Jewish Emigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century / Viktor Kel'ner Kel'ner, Viktor 367

'Immortalizing the Crime in History...': The Activities of the Ostjüdisches Historisches Archiv (Kiev-Berlin-Paris, 1920-1940 / Efim Melamed Melamed, Efim 373

From a Russian-Jewish Philanthropic Organization to the 'Glorious Institute of World Jewry': Activities of the World ORT Union in the 1920s-1940s / Alexander Ivanov Ivanov, Alexander 387

Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky and His Recently Discovered Works: Problems of Attribution and Analysis / Leonid Katsis Katsis, Leonid 417.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9004227148

9789004227149

OCLC:

769871228

Publisher Number:

99948287867