Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire / Jeffrey Veidlinger.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The modern Jewish experience
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 382 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Jewish public culture
- The Jews of this world
- Libraries: from the study hall to the public library
- Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time
- Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture
- Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word
- Theater: the professionalization of performance
- Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences
- The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past
- Public history: imagining Russian Jews
- Conclusion: this world and the next.