Culture Front (Ebook) von Benjamin Nathans

Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.

Preface
—David B. Ruderman

Introduction: A New Look at East European Jewish Culture
—Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran

PART I. VIOLENCE AND CIVILITY
1. Jewish Literary Responses to the Events of 1648-1649 and the Creation of a Polish-
Jewish Consciousness
—Adam Teller
2. "Civil Christians": Debates on the Reform of the Jews in Poland, 1789-1830
—Marcin Wodziński

PART II. MIRRORS OF POPULAR CULTURE
3. The Botched Kiss and the Beginnings of the Yiddish Stage
—Alyssa Quint
4. The Polish Popular Novel and Jewish Modernization at the End of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries
—Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
5. Cul-de-Sac: The "Inner Life of Jews" on the Fin-de-Siècle Polish Stage
—Michael C. Steinlauf

PART III. POLITICS AND AESTHETICS
6. Yosef Haim Brenner, the "Half-Intelligentsia," and Russian-Jewish Politics, 1899-1908
—Jonathan Frankel
7. Recreating Jewish Identity in Haim Nahman Bialik's Poems: The Russian Context
—Hamutal Bar-Yosef
8. Not The Dybbuk but Don Quixote: Translation, Deparochialization, and Nationalism in Jewish Culture, 1917-1919
—Kenneth Moss
9. Beyond the Purim-shpil: Reinventing the Scroll of Esther in Modern Yiddish Poems
—Kathryn Hellerstein

PART IV. MEMORY PROJECTS
10. Revealing and Concealing the Soviet Jewish Self: The Desk-Drawer Memoirs of Meir Viner
—Marcus Moseley
11. The Shtetl Subjunctive: Yaffa Eliach's Living History Museum
—Jeffrey Shandler

List of Contributors
Index