Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry

Contents

ix Contents a note on transliteration xi acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Literary Response to Conscription and the Persistence of Enlightenment in Russian-Jewish Culture 1 1. Stepchildren of the Tsar: Jewish Cantonists and the Official Origins of Russian Jewry 13 2. Great Expectations: The Beginnings of Cantonist Literature and the Emancipation of Russian-Jewish Consciousness 42 3. The Romance of Enlightenment: Gender and the Critique of Embourgeoisement in the Recruitment Novels of I. M. Dik, Grigorii Bogrov, and J. L. Gordon 73 4. Return of the Native: The Nicholaevan Universe of Sh. J. Abramovich and the Enlightenment Origins of Russian-Jewish Populism 102 5. Dead Children of the Hebrew Renaissance: The Conscription Story as Nationalist Myth 140 6. The Writing of Conscription History and the Making of the Russian-Jewish Diaspora 171 Conclusion 204 notes 209 bibliography 253 index 271 ...