Conscription and the search for modern Russian Jewry / Olga Litvak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Litvak, Olga.

Contributor:

Project Muse.

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

The modern Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Russia--History.

Jews.

Intellectual life.

Russia.

History.

Draft--Russia.

Draft.

Jews--Russia--Intellectual life.

Russia--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 273 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Reveals the enduring impact of forced service in the Tsarist army on both Russian Jewish youth and Russian Jewish literary culture

Contents:

Stepchildren of the tsar : Jewish cantonists and the official origins of Russian Jewry

Great expectations : the beginnings of cantonist literature and the emancipation of Russian-Jewish consciousness

The romance of enlightenment : gender and the critique of embourgeoisement in the recruitment novels of I.M. Dik, Grigorii Bogrov, and J.L. Gordon

Return of the native : the Nicholaevan universe of Sh. J. Abramovich and the enlightenment origins of Russian-Jewish populism

Dead children of the Hebrew renaissance : the conscription story as nationalist myth

The writing of conscription history and the making of the Russian-Jewish diaspora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Litvak, Olga. Conscription and the search for modern Russian Jewry.

ISBN:

9780253000774

0253000777

Publisher Number:

99984054381

9780253348081

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.