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To the other shore : the Russian Jewish intellectuals who came to America /

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Author / Creator: Cassedy, Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Subjects:
Jews > Russia > Intellectual life.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > Russia.
Jewish radicals > Russia.
Jewish radicals.
Jews, Russian.
Intellectual life.
Jews > Cultural assimilation.
Jews.
Russia > Ethnic relations.
Russia.
Ethnic relations.
Jews, Russian > United States > Intellectual life.
Jews > United States > Intellectual life.
United States.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > United States.
Jewish radicals > United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.
  • Chapter 1.. "We Were Not Jews": Being Russian
  • Chapter 2.. "In Chernyshevsky's Kheyder": Being Nihilists
  • Chapter 3.. "Critically Thinking Individuals": Going to the People
  • Chapter 4.. "A Crisis of Identity": The Pogroms and After
  • Part 2.
  • Chapter 5.. Coming to Shore
  • Chapter 6.. "We Are Russian Workers and Besides in America": Writing in Russian
  • Chapter 7.. "We Are Jews"--At Least, You Are: Writing in Yiddish
  • Chapter 8.. "We Are Americans": Writing in English
  • Chapter 9.. American Realism: Life, Thought, and Art
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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