Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire

by Veidlinger, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780253220585
• ISBN10: 0253220580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-02
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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	p. vii
A Note on Transliteration	p. ix
Introduction: Jewish Public Culture	p. xi
The Jews of This World	p. 1
Libraries: From the Study Hall to the Public Library	p. 24
Reading: From Sacred Duty to Leisure Time	p. 67
Literary Societies: The Culture of Language and the Language of Culture	p. 114
Cultural Performance: The People of the Book and the Spoken Word	p. 141
Theater: The Professionalization of Performance	p. 165
Musical and Dramatic Societies: Amateur Performers and Audiences	p. 196
The Jewish Historical and Ethnographic Society: Collecting the Jewish Past	p. 229
Public History: Imagining Russian Jews	p. 261
Conclusion: This World and the Next	p. 283
Notes	p. 293
Bibliography	p. 339
Index	p. 361
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