Russian idea, Jewish presence essays on Russian-Jewish intellectual life
In Russian Idea--Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career paths of Jewish intellectuals, who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed by outsiders. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to cor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brighton, MA
Academic Studies Press
2013, 2013
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | In Russian Idea--Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career paths of Jewish intellectuals, who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed by outsiders. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews to be polar opposites and even enemies. 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1936235617 9781936235612 9781618119292 1299991440 161811929X |