Russian Idea--Jewish Presence: Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life

In Russian Idea--Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible. In fact, the best Russian-Jewish intellectuals -- Semyon Dubnov, Maxim Vinaver, Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers -- were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.

• | Author: Brian Horowitz
• | Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1936235617
• | ISBN-13: 9781936235612