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9780253352873

Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253352873

  • ISBN10:

    0253352878

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-03-24
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary

The flowering of a grassroots Jewish secular culture in the last years of the Russian Empire

Author Biography

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Associate Professor of History, Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies, and Associate Director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage (IUP, 2001) and co-director of the Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration Introduction: Jewish Public Culture
The Jews of this World
Libraries: From the Study Hall to the Public Library
Reading: From Sacred Duty to Leisure Time
Literary Societies: The Culture of Language and the Language of Culture
Cultural Performance: The People of the Book and the Spoken Word
Theater: The Professionalization of Performance
Musical and Dramatic Societies: Amateur Performers and Audiences
The Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society: Collecting the Jewish Past
Public History: Imagining Russian Jews
Conclusion: AndThey Gathered Notes
Bibliography
Index
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