{"product_id":"culture-front-representing-jews-in-eastern-europe-hardback-9780812240559","title":"Culture Front; Representing Jews in Eastern Europe (Hardback) 9780812240559","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCulture Front\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRepresenting Jews in Eastern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBenjamin Nathans (Edited by), Gabriella Safran (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812240559\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 February 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eCulture Front\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e This volume brings together contributions by both historians and literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural history of East European Jewry from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. The articles collected here explore how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and more.\u003cbr\u003e The book puts culture at the forefront of analysis, treating verbal artistry itself as a kind of frontier through which Jews and Slavs imagined, experienced, and negotiated with themselves and each other. The four sections investigate the distinctive themes of that frontier: violence and civility; popular culture; politics and aesthetics; and memory. The result is a fresh exploration of ideas and movements that helped change the landscape of modern Jewish history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e —David B. Ruderman\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A New Look at East European Jewish Culture\u003cbr\u003e —Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran\u003cbr\u003e PART I. VIOLENCE AND CIVILITY\u003cbr\u003e 1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-\u003cbr\u003e Jewish Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e —Adam Teller\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Civil Christians\": Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830\u003cbr\u003e —Marcin Wodziński\u003cbr\u003e PART II. MIRRORS OF POPULAR CULTURE\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage\u003cbr\u003e —Alyssa Quint\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries\u003cbr\u003e —Eugenia Prokop-Janiec\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cul-de-Sac: The \"Inner Life of Jews\" on the Fin-de-Siècle Polish Stage\u003cbr\u003e —Michael C. Steinlauf\u003cbr\u003e PART III. POLITICS AND AESTHETICS\u003cbr\u003e 6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the \"Half-Intelligentsia,\" and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1899-1908\u003cbr\u003e —Jonathan Frankel\u003cbr\u003e 7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's Poems: The Russian Context\u003cbr\u003e —Hamutal Bar-Yosef\u003cbr\u003e 8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917-1919\u003cbr\u003e —Kenneth Moss\u003cbr\u003e 9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems\u003cbr\u003e —Kathryn Hellerstein\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. MEMORY PROJECTS\u003cbr\u003e 10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner\u003cbr\u003e —Marcus Moseley\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach's Living History Museum\u003cbr\u003e —Jeffrey Shandler\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555710038296,"sku":"9780812240559","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/culture-front-representing-jews-in-eastern-europe-hardback-9780812240559","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}