Russian Ideational Roots of Jewish Thought and Hebrew Literature / / Rina Lapidus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Lapidus, Rina,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2024]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (132 p.)

This book demonstrates how the Russian thought and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries influenced Jewish thought and Hebrew literature. Through a comparative analysis of an extensive corpus of writings by renowned Russian and Jewish thinkers, the book reveals how ideas regarding the need for a national awakening penetrated from Russian to Jewish thought. The Jewish thinkers who embraced these notions adapted them to the reality and experience of Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe. Likewise, portrayals of an individual’s quest for the authentic and just God in Russian literary works gained purchase in ideological Hebrew literature, where the hero searches for a true path to achieve spiritual, social, and national well-being for the Jewish people. Absorption of ideological influences is a universal phenomenon that is instrumental to progress and cultural development, and it is accepted in Jewish culture as well.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Russian Ideational Roots of the Jewish Enlightenment and Hebrew Literature -- Part I: The Russian Roots of the National Ideas of the Jewish Enlightenment and Zionist Movements in the Russian Empire: Y. L. Gordon, Peretz Smolenskin, Y. L. Pinsker, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda -- Chapter 1: Roots of the National Ideas of the Haskalah in the Russian Empire -- Chapter 2: The Development of Jewish Nationalist Consciousness as Reflected in Scholarly Literature -- Chapter 3: A Comparison of the Views of Y. L. Gordon and Russian Thinkers -- Chapter 4: A Comparison between the National Views of L. S. Pinsker and Those of Petr Chaadayev, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Vyacheslav Ivanov -- Part II: Russian Ideational Influences as Expressed in Hebrew Literary Works -- Chapter 5: The Russian Theological Novel and Its Ideological Incarnation in Hebrew Literature -- Chapter 6: The Epic Poem Songs of Glory by Naphtali Herz Wessely -- Bibliography -- Index