Jews in the East European Borderlands: Essays in Honor of John D. Klier

Published by Academic Studies Press 2012

Jews in the East European Borderlands

Essays in Honor of John D. Klier

Edited by: Harriet Murav and Eugene Avrutin

In the series Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy

In the series Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618110510

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John Doyle Klier’s pioneering publications on the relations between Jews and the Russian social order—on topics such as public opinion, governance, conversion, Russification politics, antisemitism, and pogroms—have influenced an entire generation of new scholarship. Jews in the East European Borderlands, a collection of essays honoring Klier’s life and work, brings together some of the most innovative scholarship in the field. Focusing on the complex, often violent, entanglements between Jews and Russians, historians and literary scholars critically reassess the artifacts of high culture, including Yiddish and Russian prose and poetry, as well as dimensions of daily life, including letter-writing, diaries, the work of philanthropy, photojournalism, and the mass circulation press.

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Eugene M. Avrutin (PhD University of Michigan) is assistant professor of modern European Jewish history and Tobor family scholar in the Program of Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010). He and Harriet Murav co-edited, together with Petersburg Judaica, Photographing the Jewish Nation: Pictures from S. An-sky's Ethnographic Expedition (2009). Harriet Murav (PhD Stanford University) is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Holy Foolishness: Dostoevsky's Novels & the Poetics of Cultural Critique (1992), Russia's Legal Fictions (1998), Identity Theft: The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner (2003), and Music From a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia (2011).

Reviews

Brian Horowitz, Professor of Russian and Chair of Jewish Studies, Tulane University:
"This volume . . . is a real bonanza for scholars of Russian-Jewish history. The essays are of high quality overall, and the book may serve as a mirror of what is happening now in the field of Russian-Jewish history and literature. . . . Essays such as these help brand the field as more than merely a subfield of Russian or Jewish history, but as a high-quality discipline in its own right."

"Jews in the East European Borderlands offers a dazzling cornucopia of pathbreaking scholarship on Russian Jewish history and culture. It is at once a fitting celebration of the life's work of a pioneering scholar and a moving tribute to his enduring influence."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Introduction Eugene M. Avrutin and Harriet Murav Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Part 1: History, Culture, and Everyday Life
2. Yiddish in Imperial Russia’s Civil Society Gennady Estraikh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3. An-sky in Liozno: “Sins of Youth” and the Archival Diary Gabriella Safran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. In the Evil Kingdom of Things: Sholem-aleichem and the Writing of Everyday Life in Jewish Literature Olga Litvak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5. A Paper Life: Model Letters and Real Letters as a Key to Russian-Jewish Aspirations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Part 2: Upheaval, Violence, and Antisemitism
6. Violence and the Migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe Shaul Stampfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. Uses and Abuses: “Pogrom” in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1881–1919 Sam Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Look! Up There in the Sky: It’s a Vulture, It’s a Bat . . . It’s a Jew. Reflections on Antisemitism in Late Imperial Russia, 1906–1914 Robert Weinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
9. Shots in the Back: On the Origin of the Anti-Jewish Pogroms of 1918–1921 Oleg Budnitskii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
10. Between External Persecution and National Renaissance: Simon Dubnow’s Lachrymose Vision of Russian-Jewish History Joshua M. Karlip Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
11. Soviet Holocaust Photography and Landscapes of Emptiness David Shneer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
12. Transformed Myths in Verse: Boris Slutsky’s Three Holocaust Poems and the Question of Violence Marat Grinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
A Bibliography of John D. Klier’s Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272

Language: English
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
Pages
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Published: February 1, 2012
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