02454nam 2200481 450 991015555200332120190826145055.090-04-33532-310.1163/9789004335325(CKB)3710000000960153(MiAaPQ)EBC4756313 2016038403(nllekb)BRILL9789004335325(EXLCZ)99371000000096015320160818d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAkim Volynsky a hidden Russian-Jewish prophet /by Helen Tolstoy ; translated and copyedited by Simon CookLeiden ;Boston :Brill.c2016.1 online resource (188 pages) illustrationsStudia Judaeoslavica,1876-6153 ;v. 1190-04-29605-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Preliminary Material -- Volynsky in Retrospect -- A Jewish Journalist -- Toward Tolstoy -- Russian Critics -- Against Decadence -- Dostoevsky -- Theater -- The Jewish Side of the Argument -- Rembrandt -- Index.In Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet Helen Tolstoy goes far beyond the accepted image of Akim Volynsky as a controversial literary critic of the 1890s who ran the first journal of Russian Symbolists, promoted philosophic idealism and proposed the first modernist reading of Dostoevsky. This book, through the study of periodicals and archive materials, offers a new view of Volynsky as a champion of Symbolist theater, supporter of Jewish playwrights, an ardent partisan of Habima theater and finally, a theoretician of Jewish theater. Throughout his life, Volynsky was a seeker of a Jewish-Christian synthesis, both religious and moral. His grand universalist view made him the first to see the true value of leading Russian writers – his contemporaries Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.Studia Judaeoslavica11.CriticsRussiaBiographyDance criticsRussiaBiographyCriticsDance critics891.78309Tolstai︠a︡ Elena1249221Cook Simon1249222NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910155552003321Akim Volynsky2895024UNINA