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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Kenneth B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

Hebrew language--Social aspects--Russia--History--20th century.

Hebrew language.

Yiddish language--Social aspects--Russia--History--20th century.

Yiddish language.

Language and culture.

Russia--Intellectual life--20th century.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 384 p., [12] p. of plates ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.

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:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674054318

0674054318

OCLC:

1013943702