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Russian idea - Jewish presence, essays on Russian-Jewish intellectual life, Brian Horowitz

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Russian idea - Jewish presence

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Brian Horowitz

essays on Russian-Jewish intellectual life

Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible. In fact, the best Russian-Jewish intellectuals Semyon Dubnov, Maxim Vinaver, Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.--, Provided by Publisher

Introduction -- I. Varieties of Russian-Jewish history: liberals, Zionists, and Diaspora Nationalists -- The Russian Roots of Semyon Dubnov's life and works -- Maxim Vinaver and the first Russian state Duma -- What is "Russian" in Russian Zionism?: Synthetic Zionism and the fate of Avram Idel'son -- An innovative agent of an alternative Jewish politics: the Odessa branch of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia -- Politics and national self-projection: the image of Jewish masses in Russian-Jewish historiography, 1860-1914 -- "Both crisis and continuity": a reinterpretation of late-Tsarist Russian Jewry -- Crystallizing memory: Russian-Jewish intelligentsia abroad and forms of self-projection -- II. M.O. Gershenzon and the intellectual life of Russia's silver age -- M.O. Gershenzon - metaphysical historian of Russia's silver age: part 1 -- M.O. Gershenzon - metaphysical historian of Russia's silver age: part 2 -- "...To break free of centuries-old complications, of the abominable fetters of social and abstract ideas": M.O. Gershenzon's side in the Correspondence Across a Room -- Unity and disunity in Landmarks (Vekhi): the rivalry between Pyotr Struve and Mikhail Gershenzon -- M.O. Gershenzon and Georges Florovsky: metaphysical philosophers of Russian history -- From the annals of the literary life of Russia's silver age: the tempestuous relationship of S.A. Vengerov and M.O. Gershenzon -- M.O. Gershenzon, the intellectual circle, and the perception of leader in Russia's silver-age culture