Russian Idea: Jewish Presence:Essays on Russian-Jewish Intellectual Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

ISBN: 9781936235612 出版年：2013 页码：311 Brian Horowitz Academic Studies Press

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, Boris Eikhenbuam, 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.