Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews

Klappentext This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. Frankel describes the dynamics of the Russian revolution and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries! ideologues! and observers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. New Dynamics?: 1. Crisis as a factor in modern Jewish politics, 1840 and 1881-2; 2. Jewish politics and the press: the 'reception' of the Alliance Israelite Universelle (1860); Part II. Revolution and War (1905-21): 3. Jewish politics and the Russian revolution of 1905; 4. 'Youth in revolt': An-sky's In Shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905; 5. Yosef Haim Brenner, the 'half-intelligentsia' and Russian-Jewish politics (1899-1908); 6. The paradoxical politics of marginality: thoughts on the Jewish situation during the years 1914-21; Part III. Ideological Conflict and Continuity: 7. The socialist opposition to Zionism in historical perspective; Part IV. Overseas: 8. The 'Yizkor' book of 1911 - a note on national myths in the second Aliya; 9. The bundists in America and the 'Zionist problem'; 10. S. M. Dubnov: historian and ideologist; 11. Assimilation and the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe: towards a new historiography?

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• Authors: Jonathan Frankel, Jonathan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Frankel, Frankel Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521181556
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18155-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Russia / General