The Russian-Jewish Tradition : Intellectuals, Historians, Revolutionaries Hardback
by Brian Horowitz
Part of the Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy series
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The book argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society.
In their diasporic cultural creations Russia’s Jews employed the general themes of artists under tsars and Soviets, but they modified these themes to fit their own needs.
The result was a hybrid, Russian-Jewish culture, unique and dynamic.
Few today consider that Jewish Eastern Europe, the “old worldâ€, was in fact a power incubator of modern Jewish consciousness.
Brian Horowitz, a well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, presents essays on Jewish education (the heder), historiography, literature and Jewish philosophy that intersect with contemporary interests on the big questions of Jewish life.
The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:292 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781618115560
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:292 pages
- Publisher:Academic Studies Press
- Publication Date:16/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781618115560
