Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Russia

Contents

Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................ 1 Jewish Writers between Two Worlds Part 1. Introduction ................................................................................................. 11 Chapter 1 A Jewish Russifier in Despair: Lev Levanda's Polish Question ............. 13 Chapter 2 Pacifism and Aggression in Shimon An-sky's Spiritual Evolution ........................................................................................... 36 Chapter 3 Poet and Nation: Fame and Amnesia in Shimon Frug's Literary Reputation ..................... 51 Chapter 4 Russian-Zionist Cultural Cooperation, 1916-18: Leib Jaffe and the Russian Intelligentsia ..................................................... 65 Chapter 5 Hail to Assimilation: Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky's Ambivalence about Fin-de-Siecle Odessa ................................................... 86 Conceptualizing a Nation Apart: Politics and Historiography Part 2. Introduction ................................................................................................. 97 Chapter 6 "Dialogue" with Heinrich Graetz, Polemic with Avram Harkavy: Simon Dubnov's Struggle for the Domination of Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1883-93 .................................................... 99 CONTE NTS Chapter 7 The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia and the Evolution of the Petersburg Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia, 1893- 1905 .................................................. 116 Chapter 8 Henrik Sliozberg: A Mirror of Petersburg Jewry in Late Tsarist Days ................................ 139 Chapter 9 Integration and Its Discontents: Mikhail Morgulis and the Ideology of Jewish Integration in Russia ........................................... 153 Chapter 10 The Portrait of a Russian-Jewish Shtadlal1: Jacob Teitel's Social Solution ....................................................................... 181 Jews in the Russian Elite Part 3. Introduction ............................................................................................... 195 Chapter 11 A Jewish-Christian Rift in 20th-Century Russian Philosophy: N. A. Berdyaev and M. O. Gershenzon ..................................................... 197 Chapter 12 Mikhail Gershenzon: A Jew in the Russian Elite ..................................... 217 Chapter 13 The Tension of Athens and Jerusalem in the Philosophy of Lev Shestov ..................................................................... 232 Chapter 14 Bringing Tidings to the Jews: Aron Shteinberg, Dostoevsky's Disciple ................................................. 250 Chapter 15 Sticking It to the Tsar: Jacob Schiff, Herman Rosenthal, and the American Fight against Tsarist Persecution of Jews ........................ 257 Bibliography ........................................................................................................... 273 Index ......................................................................................................................... 293 ...