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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521513642

ISBN-139780521513647

eBay Product ID (ePID)70909926

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Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameCrisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

SubjectWorld / Russian & Former Soviet Union, World / European, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Europe / General, Jewish

TypeTextbook

AuthorJonathan Frankel

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-018736

Reviews"The essays in this collection constitute a fitting overview of Frankel's great strengths as a scholar, highlighting his versatility and ability to integrate his vast knowledge of Russian, European, and Jewish history into larger contexts. His syntheses of these questions provide us with an opportunity to look at historical questions in innovative ways. Reading this book reminds us why he will be so sorely missed." -Alexandra Korros, H-Judaic, "The wonderful sociocultural sensibility that this historian of Jewish high politics displayed in that book is on display in Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews as well." -Kenneth B. Moss, The Journal of Modern History

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal305.892/404709041

Table Of ContentPart I. New Dynamics?: 1. Crisis as a factor in modern Jewish politics, 1840 and 1881-2; 2. Jewish politics and the press: the 'reception' of the Alliance Israelite Universelle (1860); Part II. Revolution and War (1905-21): 3. Jewish politics and the Russian revolution of 1905; 4. 'Youth in revolt': An-sky's In Shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905; 5. Yosef Haim Brenner, the 'half-intelligentsia' and Russian-Jewish politics (1899-1908); 6. The paradoxical politics of marginality: thoughts on the Jewish situation during the years 1914-21; Part III. Ideological Conflict and Continuity: 7. The socialist opposition to Zionism in historical perspective; Part IV. Overseas: 8. The 'Yizkor' book of 1911 - a note on national myths in the second Aliya; 9. The bundists in America and the 'Zionist problem'; 10. S. M. Dubnov: historian and ideologist; 11. Assimilation and the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe: towards a new historiography?

SynopsisThis collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists committed to socialism, nationalism, or both who would exert an extraordinary influence on Jewish history in the twentieth-century in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Palestine. Frankel describes the dynamics of 1905 and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers. But, elsewhere, he also looks backwards to the emergent stage of modern Jewish politics in both Russia and the West and forward to the part played by the veterans of 1905 in Palestine and the United States.", This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. Frankel describes the dynamics of the Russian revolution and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers., This collection of essays examines the politicization and the politics of the Jewish people in the Russian empire during the late tsarist period. The focal point is the Russian revolution of 1905, when the political mobilization of the Jewish youth took on massive proportions, producing a cohort of radicalized activists - committed to socialism, nationalism, or both - who would exert an extraordinary influence on Jewish history in the twentieth-century in Eastern Europe, the United States, and Palestine. Frankel describes the dynamics of 1905 and the leading role of the intelligentsia as revolutionaries, ideologues, and observers. But, elsewhere, he also looks backwards to the emergent stage of modern Jewish politics in both Russia and the West and forward to the part played by the veterans of 1905 in Palestine and the United States.

LC Classification NumberDS135.E83F715 2009