Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution / / Kenneth B. Moss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Moss, Kenneth B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Transliteration and Translation --; Introduction --; 1 The Time for Words Has Passed --; 2 The Constitution of Culture --; 3 Unfettering Hebrew and Yiddish Culture --; 4 To Make Our Masses Intellectual --; 5 The Liberation of the Jewish Individual --; 6 The Imperatives of Revolution --; 7 Making Jewish Culture Bolshevik --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054318; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054318
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kenneth B. Moss.

Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.