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: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brighton, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2013
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| 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 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781618110527 1618110527 9781618116895 1618116894 9781299991446 1299991440 9781618119292 161811929X |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2013). |
