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

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• 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

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.

Table of Contents

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