Russian Idea - Jewish Presence
, by Horowitz, BrianNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781936235612 | 1936235617
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/1/2013
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.