Imagining Russian Jewry - Memory, History, Identity

In Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity Steven J. Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah. Drawing on a wide range of sources -- including novels, plays, and archival material -- Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Prologue

1. Shtetls There and Here: Imagining Russia in America

2. Reinventing Heders

3. Remapping Odessa

4. On the Holocaust in the Writing of the East European Jewish Past

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Steven J. Zipperstein is Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History and the Taube Director of Jewish Studies at Stanford University. Among his previous publications are the award-winning books The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History and Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism. He is the editor of Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Steven J Zipperstein, Steven J. Zipperstein
• Verlag: University Of Washington Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780295977904
• ISBN: 978-0-295-97790-4
• Seiten: 152
• Abmessung: 141 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm
• Gewicht: 195 g
• Serien: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Stu
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Judentum; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges