Russian Idea-Jewish Presence : Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life / Brian Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horowitz, Brian, Author.

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gershenzon, M. O. (Mikhail Osipovich), 1869-1925.

Gershenzon, M. O.

Jews--Russia--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews.

Russia--Intellectual life--1801-1917.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

In Russian Idea-Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible. In fact, the best Russian-Jewish intellectuals-Semyon Dubnov, Maxim Vinaver, Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers-were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on transliteration

Introduction

I. Varieties of Russian-Jewish History: Liberals, Zionists, and Diaspora Nationalists

1. The Russian Roots of Semyon Dubnov's Life and Thought

2. Maxim Vinaver and the First Russian State Duma

3. What Is "Russian" in Russian Zionism? Synthetic Zionism and the Fate of Avram Idel'son

4. An Innovative Agent of an Alternative Jewish Politics: The Odessa Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia

5. Politics and National Self-Projection: The Image of Jewish Masses in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914

6. "Both Crisis and Continuity": A Reinterpretation of Late-Tsarist Russian Jewry

7. Crystallizing Memory: Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia Abroad and Forms of Self-Projection

II. M. O. Gershenzon and the Intellectual Life of Russia's Silver Age

8. M. O. Gershenzon - Metaphysical Historian of Russia's Silver Age: Part 1

9. M. O. Gershenzon - Metaphysical Historian of Russia's Silver Age: Part 2

10. "...To Break Free of Centuries-Old Complications, of the Abominable Fetters of Social and Abstract Ideas": M. O. Gershenzon's Side in the Correspondence Across a Room

11. Unity and Disunity in Landmarks (Vekhi): The Rivalry between Pyotr Struve and Mikhail Gershenzon

12. M. O. Gershenzon and Georges Florovsky: Metaphysical Philosophers of Russian History

13. From the Annals of the Literary Life of Russia's Silver Age: The Tempestuous Relationship of S. A. Vengerov and M. O. Gershenzon

14. M. O. Gershenzon, the Intellectual Circle, and the Perception of Leader in Russia's Silver-Age Culture

Bibliography

Appendix A: Jewish Monuments in Russia at the Turn of the 20th Century (From the William Brumfield Collection)

Appendix B: Rare Photographs of Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon and his Family

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781618116895

1618116894

OCLC:

1135591103

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access