Russian Ideajewish Presence Essays On Russianjewish Intellectual Life Brian Horowitz National Endowment For The Humanities And The Andrew W Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program by Brian Horowitz; National Endowment For The Humanities And The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program 9781618116895, 1618116894 instant download after payment.

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, 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.