Akim Volynsky : a hidden Russian-Jewish prophet / by Helen Tolstoy ; translated and copyedited by Simon Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolstai︠a︡, Elena.

Contributor:

Cook, Simon.

Series:

Studia Judaeoslavica 11.

Studia Judaeoslavica, 1876-6153 ; v. 11

Standardized Title:

Bednyĭ ry︠t︡sarʹ, intellektualʹnoe stranstvie Akima Volynskogo. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Critics--Russia--Biography.

Critics.

Dance critics--Russia--Biography.

Dance critics.

Volynskiĭ, A. L., 1863-1926.

Volynskiĭ, A. L.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill.

Summary:

In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists, promoted philosophic idealism and proposed the first modernist reading of Dostoevsky. This book, through the study of periodicals and archive materials, offers a new view of Volynsky as a champion of Symbolist theater, supporter of Jewish playwrights, an ardent partisan of Habima theater and finally, a theoretician of Jewish theater. Throughout his life, Volynsky was a seeker of a Jewish-Christian synthesis, both religious and moral. His grand universalist view made him the first to see the true value of leading Russian writers – his contemporaries Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Volynsky in Retrospect

A Jewish Journalist

Toward Tolstoy

Russian Critics

Against Decadence

Dostoevsky

Theater

The Jewish Side of the Argument

Rembrandt

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-33532-3

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004335325 DOI