Jewishness in Russian Culture: Within and Without

Author:   Leonid Katsis ,  Helen Tolstoy
Publisher:   Brill
Edition:   VIII, 210 Pp. ed.
Volume:   7
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9789004261617


Pages:   210
Publication Date:   24 October 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Leonid Katsis ,  Helen Tolstoy
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Edition:   VIII, 210 Pp. ed.
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9789004261617


ISBN 10:   9004261613
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   24 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Judaica Rossica - Rossica Judaica Leonid F. Katsis, Helen Tolstoy PART ONE: JEWS SPEAK TO THE EMPIRE - THE EMPIRE CREATES ITS IMAGE OF THE JEW 1. The Jewish elite in the Russian Empire of the late 18th - early 19th centuries: Toward a rhetoric of self-presentation Olga Minkina 2. Diabolic delight : New light on the history of the Jewish theme in Russian Romanticism (the 1830-1840s) Mikhail Weisskopf PART TWO: THE SILVER AGE AND THE JEWS 3. Akim Volynsky and His Jewish cycle Helen Tolstoy 4. The drama of faith and the national question in Russian-Jewish playwrights (1880 -1910) Galina Eliasberg 5. A philo-Semitic narrative in the anti-Semitic discourse: The case of Vyacheslav Ivanov Vladimir M. Paperni PART THREE. THE RUSSIAN-JEWISH DIALOG IN REVOLUTION YEARS 6. Reflection through revolution: M.O. Gershenzon's side in Correspondence from Two Corners Brian Horovitz 7. The discussions on Fedor Dostoevsky at the Moscow branch of the St.-Petersburg Free Philosophic Association as a Russian-Jewish dialogue Leonid F. Katsis PART FOUR. THE TWENTIES: STRATEGIES OF SALVATION 8. Assimilation or cultural encounter? The picaresque in G. Bogrov's Notes of a Jew and I. Ehrenburg's The Stormy Life of Lazik Roitschwantz Olaf Terpitz 9. ...We must save our people (On an unrealized project for a Russian-Jewish weekly in pre-war Paris) Vladimir Khazan PART FIVE. OLD STEREOTYPES REEMERGE IN NEW GUISES 10. Anti-Semitism and the Vampire Theme Michael Odessky 11. The `Khazar'-`Varangian' dialogue in Dmitry Bykov's ZHD: Some psychoanalytical observations Andrei Rogachevski 12. The darkness of Babylon: Russian-Jewish-Israeli experience in visionary journeys of Michail Gendelev Sergei Shargorodsky

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Leonid Katsis, PhD (1994), The Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, is Professor at the Russian American Center for Bible and Jewish Studies at The Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). He received his Habilitate Doctorate in Russian Literature from the same institution in 2002. He has authored monographs on Vladimir Maijakovsky (2000, 2004), Jewish themes in Osip Mandelstam (2002), the Beilis trial (2006) among others, and edited with Prof. Helen Tolstoy the collective volume Zhabotinski i Rossiia (Stanford, 2013). Helen Tolstoy is Professor Emerita of Hebrew University. She received an M.A. in English literature in Moscow and a Ph.D. in Russian literature at The Hebrew University, and has been teaching at her alma mater. She authored monographs on Chekhov (2003), Alexei Tolstoy (2006 and 2012), and Akim Volynsky (2012), and edited, with Leonid Katsis, the collective volume Zhabotinski i Rossiia (Stanford, 2013).

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