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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820482003321

Autore

Safran Gabriella <1967->

Titolo

Rewriting the Jew : assimilation narratives in the Russian empire / / Gabriella Safran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-8047-6443-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Contraversions

Disciplina

305.892/4047

Soggetti

Jews - Cultural assimilation - Russia

Jews - Russia - Identity

Acculturation - Russia

Jews - Russia - Public opinion

Public opinion - Russia

Russia Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the doctoral dissertation: Narratives of Jewish acculturation in the Russian empire, 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 AN UNPRECEDENTED TYPE OF HUMAN BEING: GRIGORY BOGROV -- 2 THE NATION AND THE WIDE WORLD: ELIZA ORZESZKOWA -- 3 JEW AS TEXT, JEW AS READER: NIKOLAI LESKOV -- 4 MUTABLE, PERMUTABLE, APPROXIMATE, AND RELATIVE: ANTON CHEKHOV -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE MATTER -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- CONTRAVERSIONS jews and other differences.

Sommario/riassunto

In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation, introducing the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their time.