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Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe
Benjamin Nathans (Ed.)
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Description for Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe
Hardback. Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere. Editor(s): Nathans, Benjamin; Safran, Gabriella. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 644.
For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as Eastern Europe, has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine were prodigious generators of modern Jewish culture. Their volatile blend of religious traditionalism and precocious quests for collective self-emancipation lies at the heart of Culture Front. This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of ... Read more
For most of the last four centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as Eastern Europe, has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine were prodigious generators of modern Jewish culture. Their volatile blend of religious traditionalism and precocious quests for collective self-emancipation lies at the heart of Culture Front. This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Jewish Culture & Contexts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812240559
SKU
V9780812240559
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About Benjamin Nathans (Ed.)
Benjamin Nathans is Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Gabriella Safran is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. She is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire and coeditor ... Read more
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