Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2008

Culture Front

Representing Jews in Eastern Europe

Edited by: Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran

In the series Jewish Culture and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291032

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About this book

Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.

Author / Editor information

Benjamin Nathans is Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Gabriella Safran is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. She is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire and coeditor (with Steven Zipperstein) of The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. A New Look at East European Jewish Culture Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Violence and Civility
1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648–1649 and the Creation of a Polish-Jewish Consciousness Adam Teller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. ‘‘Civil Christians’’: Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789–1830 Marcin Wodzinski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Part II. Mirrors of Popular Culture
3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage Alyssa Quint Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries Eugenia Prokop-Janiec Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. Cul-de-Sac: The ‘‘Inner Life of Jews’’ on the Fin-de-Sie`cle Polish Stage Michael C. Steinlauf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part III. Politics and Aesthetics
6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the ‘‘Half-Intelligentsia,’’ and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1898–1908 Jonathan Frankel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik’s Poems: The Russian Context Hamutal Bar-Yosef Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917–1919 Kenneth B. Moss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems Kathryn Hellerstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Part IV. Memory Projects
10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner Marcus Moseley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach’s Living History Museum Jeffrey Shandler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Religion; History; Jewish Studies

eBook

Published: June 9, 2014
ISBN: 9780812291032