Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

Index

Abramovitsh, Sholem Yankev. See Mendele Moykher Sforim (S. Y. Abramovitsh) Abramson, Bernard, 234 Abramson, Jacob, 234 Academic Union for the Study of Jewish History and Literature, 127 Academy of the Science of Judaism, 231 acculturation, into Russian language, 15, 82, 87, 115, 127 actors, 55, 173, 185 Adler, Sam, 180, 186 Aggada, 69 Agnon, S. Y., 70, 89 agriculture/agrarian reform, 19, 89 Ahad Ha-Am, xi, 6, 14, 100; on balance of flesh and spirit, 5; Jewish history studies and, 236; liberal nationalism and, 13; libraries and, 43 Ahashverush (Purim play), 199 Aizenstadt, S., 161 Aizman, David, 95 “Al ha-tsipor” [To the Bird] (Bialik), 7 Aleksander (Grand Prince of Lithuania), 275 Alexander II, Tsar, 108, 253, 255, 256, 265 Alexander III, Tsar, 30, 171, 237, 257 All-Russian Librarians’ Conference, 44, 47, 126 All-Russian Zionist Organization, xi, 22 Altick, Richard, 24, 67 Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr, 91 An-sky, S., 6, 70, 72, 123; autobiography, 26–27; on canon of Yiddish literature, 79; on celebrity lecturers, 153, 155–56; death of, 288; on destruction of Great War, 283, 284–85; ethnography promoted by, 257–60; on Jewish assimilation in Germanic lands, 39; on Jewish folklore, 22–23; JHES and, 229, 246, 257, 258; language debates and, 129; on theater, 192 Anan ben David, 275 Andersen, Hans Christian, 105, 110, 111, 316n156 Andreev, Leonid, 91, 95, 102 Anokhi (Zalmon Yitshok Aronsohn), 104 anthropology, racial, 276–78 anti-Semitism, 14, 29, 133, 158, 191; libraries and, 63, 64; in Poland, 58; sexual themes in, 93, 109. See also pogroms Ari (Isaac Luria), 36 Aristotle, 68 Arnshteyn, Mark, 200, 215–16 Aronowicz, Joseph, 267 artels, xii artisans, 54, 56, 64, 89 Artsybashev, Mikhail, 4, 80, 95, 109, 112; cultural impact of, 92; popularity among Jewish readers, 12, 90 asceticism, 1, 4, 5, 208 Asch, Sholem, 7, 58, 129; as celebrity speaker, 156, 162; fund-raising theater and, 206; international fame of, 84; language debates and, 130; “living picture” performances and, 226; poor/ ordinary folk as readers of, 70; popularity of, 101; portrait, 128; in Russian translation, 95, 96; theater and, 174, 181, 185, 194; women readers and, 79; women’s roles in plays of, 208 Assaf, Simha, 25 assembly, freedom of, 8, 15, 17, 18, 142 assimilation, 113, 115, 127, 206, 268; cultural hybridity and, 264; failures of, 235; in imperial capital, 136; language question and, 130, 334n3; in Moscow, 174; in Poland, 232; traditional dress and, 264–65 association, freedom of, 15 Austro-Hungarian empire, xiv, xviii, 84, 123, 190; Polish partitions and, 274; revolution (1848), 268–69, 270; theater in, 167, 169 avoyde (service to God), 4 Index Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. 362 index Avrom’l der shuster [Avrom the Cobbler] (Berl), 187 Ayerov, Sonya, 79, 80 Ayzenstadt, S. I., 158 Baal-Makhshoves (Isidor Eliashev), 220 Baal Shem Tov (R. Israel ben Eliezer), 36, 159 Babel, Isaac, 288 Baer, Yitzhak Fritz, 266 Balaban, Majer, 229, 267–70, 281–82 ballet, 170, 174 Balzac, Honoré de, 89 Bar Kokhba (Goldfadn), 220 Baranovichi, town of: Jewish Literary Society, 96, 126, 224; libraries, 64, 81; on map, xx; theater, 200–201, 205 Barg arop [Downhill] (Hirschbein), 209 Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 105 Baron Horace Gintsburg Expedition, 258 “Be-ir ha-haregah” [In the City of Slaughter] (Bialik), 7 beer gardens, 22, 125, 168, 172, 183 Beilin, Rabbi S. Kh., 256–57 Beilis, Calman, 197–98 Belarus (Byelorussia), 196, 235, 289 Belinsky, Vissarion, 73 belles lettres, 39, 73, 89, 90, 99, 114 Ben-Ami, Jacob, 187 Ben Ami (Mordecai Rabinowitch), 111, 131 Berdichev, city of, xx, 63, 125, 132, 136 Berdyczewski, Mikhah Yosef, 101 Berlin, city of, 10, 184, 231 Berlin literature, 74–75 Berman, L., 37, 173 Berman, Vasilii, 241, 242 Bernstein, L., 72, 75 Bershadskii, Sergei, 232–33, 262–63 Bershadsky, Isaiah, 101 besemedresh (religious study halls), xvi, 24, 33, 76, 89, 210; book peddlers and, 35, 36; canon of texts, 76; cultural performances and, 147; maskilim and, 34; modern public libraries compared to, 25–26; rabbinical authorities and, 42; reading habits and, 73–74; secular activities at, 65; secular municipal libraries and, 27–28; sermons by itinerant preachers, 144; superstition identified with, 82 Bessarabia Province, xiv, xx, 121, 169; annexed by Romania, 287; famine in, 173; libraries, 51, 53, 61; theater, 177, 187, 202 Bialik, Hayim Nahman, 7, 89, 134, 205; as celebrity speaker, 151–52, 156; Hebrew songs and, 224; Jewish Literary-Scientific Society and, 138; Jewish Literary Society and, 126; “living picture” performances and, 226; popularity of, 100, 101...