Jews in the East European Borderlands : : Essays in Honor of John D. Klier / / ed. by Harriet Murav, Eugene Avrutin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Avrutin, Eugene M.,; Budnitskii, Oleg,; Estraikh, Gennady,; Grinberg, Marat,; Johnson, Sam,; Karlip, Joshua M.,; Litvak, Olga,; Murav, Harriet,; Nakhimovsky, Alice,; Newman, Roberta,; Safran, Gabriella,; Shneer, David,; Stampfer, Shaul,; Weinberg, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Avrutin, Eugene,; Murav, Harriet,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

John Doyle Klier’s pioneering publications on the relations between Jews and the Russian social order—on topics such as public opinion, governance, conversion, Russification politics, antisemitism, and pogroms—have influenced an entire generation of new scholarship. Jews in the East European Borderlands, a collection of essays honoring Klier’s life and work, brings together some of the most innovative scholarship in the field. Focusing on the complex, often violent, entanglements between Jews and Russians, historians and literary scholars critically reassess the artifacts of high culture, including Yiddish and Russian prose and poetry, as well as dimensions of daily life, including letter-writing, diaries, the work of philanthropy, photojournalism, and the mass circulation press.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: History, Culture, and Everyday Life -- 2. Yiddish in Imperial Russia’s Civil Society -- 3. An-sky in Liozno: “Sins of Youth” and the Archival Diary -- 4. In the Evil Kingdom of Things: Sholem-aleichem and the Writing of Everyday Life in Jewish Literature -- 5. A Paper Life: Model Letters and Real Letters as a Key to Russian-Jewish Aspirations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Part 2: Upheaval, Violence, and Antisemitism -- 6. Violence and the Migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe -- 7. Uses and Abuses: “Pogrom” in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1881–1919 -- 8. Look! Up There in the Sky: It’s a Vulture, It’s a Bat . . . It’s a Jew. Reflections on Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia, 1906–1914 -- 9. Shots in the Back: On the Origin of the Anti-Jewish Pogroms of 1918–1921 -- 10. Between External Persecution and National Renaissance: Simon Dubnow’s Lachrymose Vision of Russian-Jewish History -- 11. Soviet Holocaust Photography and Landscapes of Emptiness -- 12. Transformed Myths in Verse: Boris Slutsky’s Three Holocaust Poems and the Question of Violence -- A Bibliography of John D. Klier’s Works -- INDEX