Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction -- I. Varieties of Russian-Jewish History: Liberals, Zionists, and Diaspora Nationalists -- 1. The Russian Roots of Semyon Dubnov's Life and Thought -- 2. Maxim Vinaver and the First Russian State Duma -- 3. What Is "Russian" in Russian Zionism? Synthetic Zionism and the Fate of Avram Idel'son -- 4. An Innovative Agent of an Alternative Jewish Politics: The Odessa Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia -- 5. Politics and National Self-Projection: The Image of Jewish Masses in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914 -- 6. "Both Crisis and Continuity": A Reinterpretation of Late-Tsarist Russian Jewry -- 7. Crystallizing Memory: Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia Abroad and Forms of Self-Projection -- II. M. O. Gershenzon and the Intellectual Life of Russia's Silver Age -- 8. M. O. Gershenzon - Metaphysical Historian of Russia's Silver Age: Part 1 -- 9. M. O. Gershenzon - Metaphysical Historian of Russia's Silver Age: Part 2 -- 10. "...To Break Free of Centuries-Old Complications, of the Abominable Fetters of Social and Abstract Ideas": M. O. Gershenzon's Side in the Correspondence Across a Room -- 11. Unity and Disunity in Landmarks (Vekhi): The Rivalry between Pyotr Struve and Mikhail Gershenzon -- 12. M. O. Gershenzon and Georges Florovsky: Metaphysical Philosophers of Russian History -- 13. From the Annals of the Literary Life of Russia's Silver Age: The Tempestuous Relationship of S. A. Vengerov and M. O. Gershenzon -- 14. M. O. Gershenzon, the Intellectual Circle, and the Perception of Leader in Russia's Silver-Age Culture -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Jewish Monuments in Russia at the Turn of the 20th Century (From the William Brumfield Collection) -- Appendix B: Rare Photographs of Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon and his Family -- Index
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In Russian Idea-Jewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible. In fact, the best Russian-Jewish intellectuals-Semyon Dubnov, Maxim Vinaver, Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers-were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.
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