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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785019703321

Autore

Moss Kenneth B

Titolo

Jewish renaissance in the Russian revolution [[electronic resource] /] / Kenneth B. Moss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05431-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 384 p., [12] p. of plates ) : ill

Disciplina

305.892/404709041

Soggetti

Jews - Russia - Intellectual life - 20th century

Hebrew language - Social aspects - Russia - History - 20th century

Yiddish language - Social aspects - Russia - History - 20th century

Language and culture

Russia Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The time for words has passed -- The constitution of culture -- Unfettering Hebrew and Yiddish culture -- To make our masses intellectual -- The liberation of the Jewish individual -- The imperatives of revolution -- Making Jewish culture Bolshevik.

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.