Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Вестник Еврейского университета
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (1995) 89-140; 12 (1996) 168-193
Keywords:
Levanda, L. O.
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Jews History 1800-2000
Abstract:
The first essay in a series dealing with the Russian-Jewish writer Lev Osipovich Levanda (1835-1888). Relates, inter alia, Levanda's reaction to the wave of pogroms in Russia in 1881-82 and to the rise of antisemitism in the world. Despite his assimilationism, Levanda, even before the pogroms, was aware of popular antisemitism, but attributed it to the "legislators", who spread hatred of the Jews. The main shock which the riots caused him was that the educated classes in Russia supported them too. Levanda revised his view that raising the educational level of both Jews and non-Jews would bring about a reconciliation with the Jews. He called on Jews to engage in self-defense. Levanda was disappointed in the idea of cultural assimilation and supported some forms of Diaspora nationalism, but not "Palestinophilism" (i.e. the Hibbat Zion movement).
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