Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry

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271 index Abramovich, Sh. J., 11, 102–139, 154, 204; and nationalism, 140, 142–143, 144, 157, 165, 168, 233nn46,47, 236n84; and romanticism , 113, 233n45; as Mendele the Bookpeddler, 103–105, 113, 114–115, 121, 133, 134, 162; autobiography, 104, 130–131, 132–133, 134, 236n85; The CallUp , 121, 124–128; critical discovery of, 129–132; Fishke the Lame, 105, 123, 131, 133; Hebrew style, 104, 132; Learn to Do Well (The Fathers and the Sons), 107–112, 131; The Little Man, 121–124, 128–129, 133, 183; The Magic Ring, 105, 133–139; The Nag, 131, 132; The Travels of Benjamin the Third, 105, 113–121, 123, 124, 131, 132, 133, 137 Ahad ha’am, 133, 165–166 Aksenfeld, Israel, 205, 217n1 Alexander I, 16, 18, 19 Alexander II, 4, 10, 24, 30, 40–41, 66–67, 78, 86, 102, 116 Alexander III, 102 An-sky, S., 198–203 anti-Semitism, 1, 9, 172, 181 Antokol’skii, M. M., 175, 176–179, 180, 182–183, 184, 190 Arieli-Orlov, Grigorii, 12, 156; ‘‘In the Light of Venus,’’ 162–165 Arkhangel’sk, 31, 33 autobiography, 12, 42, 174–186, 246n23 Babel, Isaac, 63, 163, 208 Ben-Ami (M. Y. Rabinovich), 12, 143, 155, 157, 167, 169–170; ‘‘Ben yukhid,’’ 144– 145, 147–148, 149, 154–155, 160– 161 Bogrov, Grigorii, 11, 74–75, 85–93, 109, 114, 121, 208; ‘‘Captive Recruit,’’ 85–88; Notes of a Jew, 88–93, 94 Brenner, Joseph, 12, 156; ‘‘One Year,’’ 162– 165 Buki ben yagli (Judah-Leib Katsnelson), 175–176, 193–194 cantonists, 3–4, 13–41, 42, 48, 54, 181–182, 186, 196, 197. See also conscription, Jewish Catherine II, 16, 17, 24, 46, 56 collective memory, 5, 208, 210n11 conscription, Jewish: administration of, 14, 26, 195; Decree of 1827, 19, 26; folktales and songs, 239n16, 241n54; instituted by Nicholas I, 3, 7, 13–41, 42, 197; Jewish response to, 3, 225n26; quotas, 3–4 conversion, 21–22, 24–29, 39, 214n52; monetary inducements, 28–29, 31 Crimean War, 4, 23, 38–39, 47, 53, 66, 72, 108, 114, 183 crown rabbinate, 40, 114, 122 Departments of Military Settlements (DMS), 14, 15, 21–22, 23, 27, 29–30, 32, 38, 193, 195 Dik, Isaac-Meir, 11, 74–75, 77–85, 94, 96, 109, 114, 121, 208, 225n23; First Levy of Recruits, 78–80, 183; The Runaway Recruit, 80–82; The Soldier’s Son, 80, 82–83 Dostoevsky, F. M., 88–89, 235n79; comparison with Abramovich, 130 272 index Dubnow, S. M., 173–174, 187–188, 189, 190–193, 197 Efremov case, 25, 36 Eichenbaum, Jacob, 56–58 emancipation, 7–8, 9, 38, 54–55, 73–77, 110, 139, 168, 170, 172. See also ‘‘selective integration’’ embourgeoisement, 11, 61, 75–76, 86, 110, 143 Enlightenment, Jewish. See Haskalah Evreiskaia biblioteka, 45, 51, 85 Evreiskaia starina, 43, 45, 186, 187, 192, 193, 194 Feierberg, M. Z., 12, 143, 157, 167; ‘‘Whither?’’ 166; ‘‘Yankev the Watchman,’’ 145, 146, 148, 149, 153–154 Frishman, David, 104–105 Fuenn, S. J., 23 Gessen, Iu. I., 65, 187–188, 189, 199, 250n81 Ginsburg, S. M., 187, 189, 196–197 Gordon, Judah-Leib, 11, 74–75, 93–101, 107, 109, 114, 121, 129, 130, 208; ‘‘Awake, My People!,’’ 94; ‘‘The Dry Bones,’’ 95–97; ‘‘For Whom Do I Toil?,’’ 97; ‘‘Mother’s Farewell to Her Child Who Was Recruited in 1845,’’ 94–96, 183 Great Reforms, 7, 34, 40–41, 42, 45, 51, 55, 84, 102, 107, 172, 208 Habad, 17 Halbwachs, Maurice, 5 Hamelits, 95, 113 Hashahar, 103 Hasidism, 17, 31, 86, 99–100, 109, 182– 183, 227n57 Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), 6–8, 9– 10, 11, 23, 41, 42, 44, 56, 64, 73–77, 84, 94, 97–98, 100, 128, 168, 193; and conscription , 7–9, 211n19; and Hebrew Renaissance , 102–107, 142–143, 156, 166– 170, 205; and masculinity, 117–118, 181, 198, 203, 208, 224n6, 228n89, 229n95 Hebrew renaissance, 11–12, 102–107, 113, 132, 140–170, 204–205, 230n8. See also nationalism Herzen, Alexander, 199–200 Herzl, Theodor, 106–107 historiography, 4–6, 12, 15, 76, 103, 173– 174, 183–184, 186; apocalyptic, 204–206; conscription, 187–198; martyrdom in, 191–193, 201, 240n47, 250n81; normative , 206–208; post-1492, 189–190, 195, 248n57, 249n58 Holy Synod, 21, 25, 27, 196. See also Orthodoxy Il’in, Nikolai, 19–20 immigration, 1, 3–4, 171–173, 250n82 Itskovich, I. I., 33–34, 194 Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society, 173– 174, 187 Judaeophobia, 16. See also anti-Semitism...