The Russian Jewish diaspora and European culture, 1917-1937 / edited by Jorg Schulte, Olga Tabachnikova, Peter Wagstaff.

• Superior document: IJS Studies in Judaica ; 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Schulte, Jörg.; Tabachnikova, Olga, 1967-; Wagstaff, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Jewish emigration from Russia after the Revolution of 1917 changed the face of Jewish culture in Western Europe. Russian Jews brought with them the visions of a national Jewish literature in Hebrew, Yiddish or Russian, and new concepts of secular Jewish music and art. Often they acted as intermediaries between Jewish centres in Europe, which resulted in the creation of a single sphere of Jewish culture common to all parts of the European diaspora. Although some stayed in Western Europe for only a few years before moving on to Palestine, the budding Hebrew culture in Palestine would not have been the same without this relatively short period of intense contact between Russian Jewish and Western European cultures.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jörg Schulte , Olga Tabachnikova and Peter Wagstaff -- Russian-Jewish Cultural Retention in Early Twentieth Century Western Europe: / François Guesnet -- Russian Jewish Translators and Writers Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell in Bialik’s Translation / Anat Feinberg -- Bialik’s Translation of Don Quixote (1912/1923) / Marianna Prigozhina -- Vogel and the City / Glenda Abramson -- Marginalia of the Hebrew Renaissance: / Zoya Kopelman -- Interpretations of Past and Present of Jewish Culture Russian-Jewish Ideas in German Dress: / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Nahum Slouschz (1871–1966) and His Contribution to the Hebrew Renaissance / Jörg Schulte -- Cultural Anxieties of Russian-Jewish Émigrés: / Olga Tabachnikova -- Pinḥas Rutenberg and Vladimir Burtsev: / Vladimir Khazan -- An Enclave in Time? Russian-Jewish Berlin Revisited / Olaf Terpitz -- Bergelson, Benjamin and Berlin: / Harriet Murav -- New Sources on Russian Jewish Influences in Music, Art and Publishing If Moscow Were Paris: / Agnieszka W. Wierzcholska -- Der Einfluss der jüdischen kulturellen Renaissance in Osteuropa auf das Musikleben in Wien (1919–1938) / Jascha Nemtsov -- The Graphic Work of Issachar Ber Ryback (1897–1935): / Serge-Aljosja Stommels and Albert Lemmens -- ‘A Beautiful Lie’—Zhar Ptitsa (The Firebird): / Susanne Marten-Finnis -- The Absence of a Jewish Russian Legacy in France: / Boris Czerny -- Ideology and Identity: / Christina Lodder -- Repositories of the Russian Jewish Diaspora Simon Dubnow and the Question of Jewish Emigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century / Viktor Kel’ner -- ‘Immortalizing the Crime in History . . .’: / Efim Melamed -- From a Russian-Jewish Philanthropic Organization to the ‘Glorious Institute of World Jewry’: / Alexander Ivanov -- Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky and His Recently Discovered Works: / Leonid Katsis -- Index of Names / Jörg Schulte , Olga Tabachnikova and Peter Wagstaff.