Crisis, revolution, and Russian Jews /

Crisis, revolution, and Russian Jews /

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This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of...

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Main Author: Frankel, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Jews > Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 19th century.
Jews > Russia > Politics and government > 20th century.
Jewish socialists > Russia > History > 20th century.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > Europe, Eastern > History > 19th century.
Jews > Europe, Eastern > Intellectual life.
Labor Zionism > History > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Crisis as a factor in modern Jewish politics,1840 and 1881-1882
  • Jewish politics and the press: the "reception" of the Alliance Israélite Universelle (1860)
  • Jewish politics and the Russian revolution of 1905
  • "Youth in revolt": An-sky's In Shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905
  • Yosef Haim Brenner, the "half-intelligentsia," and Russian-Jewish politics (1899-1908)
  • The paradoxical politics of marginality: thoughts on the Jewish situation during the years 1914-1921
  • The socialist opposition to Zionism in historical perspective
  • The "Yizkor" book of 1911: a note on national myths in the Second Aliya
  • The Bundists in America and the "Zionist problem"
  • S.M. Dubnov: historian and ideologist
  • Assimilation and the Jews in ninteenth-century Europe: towards a new historiography?

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