Simon Dubnow's "new Judaism" : diaspora nationalism and the world history of the Jews /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seltzer, Robert M. (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Series:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; volume 21.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Breaking with the past, 1860-1886
  • Leaving the Shtetl
  • Russian Jewry in the Reign of Alexander II
  • Dubnow's "First World"
  • The Vilna Haskalah and the beginning of Simon's rebellion
  • From Haskalah to Positivism
  • The search for a secular education
  • The impact of radical Maskilim, Russian Nihilists, and their western exemplars
  • Dubnow's self-image in his early twenties
  • Young Dubnow as a Jewish positivist
  • The Jewish press in nineteenth-century Russia
  • The budding career of a Russian-Jewish critic
  • Kritikus/Externus on the backwardness of Russian Jewry
  • Reconsidering the past, 1886-1897
  • Coping with new realities
  • Rejection
  • In and out of an emotional crisis
  • Discovering history
  • Romantic positivism
  • The influence of Renan and Graetz
  • The influence of Lavrov and Mikhailovsky
  • Historical Integratsia Dushi
  • The exigencies of the present, 1897-1907
  • The historian becomes a nationalist
  • Activism
  • The Odessa circle
  • Autonomism
  • From the nineteenth to the twentieth century
  • The letters on old and new Judaism
  • On Dubnow's historiography
  • From Vilna to St. Petersburg/Petrograd to Berlin to Riga
  • Reconsiderations
  • Are the Jews a nation?
  • Defensive nationalism
  • Dubnow, then and now
  • Bibliography
  • Dubnow's "Auto Bibliography"
  • Index.