Jewishness in Russian culture : : within and without / / edited by Leonid F. Katsis, Helen Tolstoy, translated from Russian by Elen Rochlin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Katsis, Leonid.; Tolstoy, Helen.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaeoslavica; Studia Judaeoslavica 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Introduction: Judaica Rossica—Rossica Judaica /; The Jewish Elite in the Russian Empire of the Late 18th – Early 19th Centuries: Toward a Rhetoric of Self-Presentation /; “Diabolic Delight”: New Materials to the Jewish Theme in Russian Romanticism /; Akim Volynsky and His Jewish Cycle /; The Drama of Faith and the National Question in Russian-Jewish Playwrights (1880–1910) /; A Philo-Semitic Narrative in the Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov /; Reflection through Revolution: M.O. Gershenzon’s Side in the Correspondence from Two Corners /; The Discussions on Fedor Dostoevsky at the Moscow Branch of the St.-Petersburg “Free Philosophic Association” as a Russian-Jewish Dialogue /; Assimilation or Cultural Encounter? The Picaresque in G. Bogrov’s Notes of a Jew and I. Ehrenburg’s The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz /; “… We Must Save Our People” (On an Unrealized Project for a Russian Jewish Weekly in Pre-War Paris) /; Anti-Semitism and the Vampire Theme /; The ‘Khazar’-‘Varangian’ Dialogue in Dmitry Bykov’s ZhD: Some Psychoanalytical Observations /; The Darkness of Babylon: A Russian-Jewish-Israeli Experience in Visionary Journeys of Mikhail Gendelev /; Name Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004261621
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Leonid F. Katsis, Helen Tolstoy, translated from Russian by Elen Rochlin.

Jewishness in Russian Culture is devoted to new approaches and methods for the study of Jewish acculturation in Russian literature and its effects. It attempts to redefine criteria and borders of a discipline situated roughly between Judaica Rossica and Rossica Judaica. The monograph describes a series of important literary Russian-Jewish cultural events and figures belonging synchronically or diachronically to both disciplines. Thus it unites within a new conceptual framework the data accumulated by scholars and disciplines that exist separately in different research spaces that do not overlap, Jewish Studies and the history of Russian culture. The emerging picture shows the development of a historical plot along the axis of acculturation and anti-Semitism, accepting and/or trying to be accepted, being rejected and/or rejecting, and being within or without.