Olga Litvak

Conscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780253348081
• ISBN-10: 0253348080
• Artikelnr.: 21539186

Autorenporträt

Olga Litvak teaches European and Jewish history at Princeton University. Born in Soviet Russia and educated in the United States, she is a New Yorker by conviction.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
A Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Literary Response to Conscription and the Persistence of
Enlightenment in Russian-Jewish Culture
1. Stepchildren of the Tsar: Jewish Cantonists and the Official Origins of
Russian Jewry
2. Great Expectations: The Beginnings of Cantonist Literature and the
Emancipation of Russian-Jewish Consciousness
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
4. Return of the Native: The Nicholaevan Universe of Sh. J. Abramovich and
the Enlightenment Origins of Russian-Jewish Populism
5. Dead Children of the Hebrew Renaissance: The Conscription Story as
Nationalist Myth
6. The Writing of Conscription History and the Making of the Russian-Jewish
Diaspora
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index