LEADER 04517nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910462816203321 005 20211028030200.0 010 $a0-674-07496-3 010 $a0-674-07494-7 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674074941 035 $a(CKB)2670000000368331 035 $a(EBL)3301310 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886801 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11548577 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10834982 035 $a(PQKB)11468972 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301310 035 $a(DE-B1597)209751 035 $a(OCoLC)843880780 035 $a(OCoLC)853265933 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674074941 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713637 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000368331 100 $a20130215d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe tragedy of a generation$b[electronic resource] $ethe rise and fall of Jewish nationalism in Eastern Europe /$fJoshua M. Karlip 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (400 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-07285-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tA Word about Transliteration --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE :Diaspora Nationalism and Yiddishism in Late Imperial Russia --$tCHAPTER TWO: Catastrophe and Renaissance during World War I --$tCHAPTER THREE: Losing Russia as a Base --$tCHAPTER FOUR: At the Crossroads --$tCHAPTER FIVE: The Holocaust --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe Tragedy of a Generation is the story of the rise and fall of an ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential but overlooked strains of Jewish thought-Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism-and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and, later, the Holocaust. Joshua M. Karlip presents three figures-Elias Tcherikower, Yisroel Efroikin, and Zelig Kalmanovitch-seen through the lens of Imperial Russia on the brink of revolution. Leaders in the struggle for recognition of the Jewish people as a national entity, these men would prove instrumental in formulating the politics of Diaspora Nationalism, a middle path that rejected both the Zionist emphasis on Palestine and the Marxist faith in class struggle. Closely allied with this ideology was Yiddishism, a movement whose adherents envisioned the Yiddish language and culture, not religious tradition, as the unifying force of Jewish identity. We follow Tcherikower, Efroikin, and Kalmanovitch as they navigate the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century in pursuit of a Jewish national renaissance in Eastern Europe. Correcting the misconception of Yiddishism as a radically secular movement, Karlip uncovers surprising confluences between Judaism and the avowedly nonreligious forms of Jewish nationalism. An essential contribution to Jewish historiography, The Tragedy of a Generation is a probing and poignant chronicle of lives shaped by ideological conviction and tested to the limits by historical crisis. 606 $aJewish nationalism$zRussia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJewish socialists$zRussia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews$zRussia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews$zRussia$xIdentity$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews$zRussia$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aJews$zRussia$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aLabor Zionism$zRussia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aYiddishists$zRussia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aRussia$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJewish nationalism$xHistory 615 0$aJewish socialists$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xIdentity$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life 615 0$aJews$xPolitics and government 615 0$aLabor Zionism$xHistory 615 0$aYiddishists$xHistory 676 $a320.54095694 700 $aKarlip$b Joshua M.$f1971-$01044762 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462816203321 996 $aThe tragedy of a generation$92470574 997 $aUNINA