Jewishness in Russian culture : within and without / edited by Leonid F. Katsis, Helen Tolstoy, translated from Russian by Elen Rochlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Katsis, Leonid.

Tolstai︠a︡, Elena.

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica 7.

Studia Judaeoslavica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--Russia.

Antisemitism.

Jews in literature.

Russian literature--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--Jewish authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jewishness in Russian Culture is devoted to new approaches and methods for the study of Jewish acculturation in Russian literature and its effects. It attempts to redefine criteria and borders of a discipline situated roughly between Judaica Rossica and Rossica Judaica. The monograph describes a series of important literary Russian-Jewish cultural events and figures belonging synchronically or diachronically to both disciplines. Thus it unites within a new conceptual framework the data accumulated by scholars and disciplines that exist separately in different research spaces that do not overlap, Jewish Studies and the history of Russian culture. The emerging picture shows the development of a historical plot along the axis of acculturation and anti-Semitism, accepting and/or trying to be accepted, being rejected and/or rejecting, and being within or without.

Contents:

Front Matter / Leonid F. Katsis and Helen Tolstoy

Introduction: Judaica Rossica—Rossica Judaica / Leonid F. Katsis and Helen Tolstoy

The Jewish Elite in the Russian Empire of the Late 18th – Early 19th Centuries: Toward a Rhetoric of Self-Presentation / Olga Minkina

“Diabolic Delight”: New Materials to the Jewish Theme in Russian Romanticism / Mikhail Weisskopf

Akim Volynsky and His Jewish Cycle / Helen Tolstoy

The Drama of Faith and the National Question in Russian-Jewish Playwrights (1880–1910) / Galina Eliasberg

A Philo-Semitic Narrative in the Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov / Vladimir M. Paperni

Reflection through Revolution: M.O. Gershenzon’s Side in the Correspondence from Two Corners / Brian Horowitz

The Discussions on Fedor Dostoevsky at the Moscow Branch of the St.-Petersburg “Free Philosophic Association” as a Russian-Jewish Dialogue / Leonid F. Katsis

Assimilation or Cultural Encounter? The Picaresque in G. Bogrov’s Notes of a Jew and I. Ehrenburg’s The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz / Olaf Terpitz

“… We Must Save Our People” (On an Unrealized Project for a Russian Jewish Weekly in Pre-War Paris) / Vladimir Khazan

Anti-Semitism and the Vampire Theme / M.P. Odessky

The ‘Khazar’-‘Varangian’ Dialogue in Dmitry Bykov’s ZhD: Some Psychoanalytical Observations / Andrei Rogatchevski

The Darkness of Babylon: A Russian-Jewish-Israeli Experience in Visionary Journeys of Mikhail Gendelev / Sergei Shargorodsky

Name Index / Leonid F. Katsis and Helen Tolstoy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-26162-1

OCLC:

862371702

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004261624 DOI