The Tragedy of a Generation : The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe / Joshua M. Karlip.
Karlip, Joshua M., author.
2013
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Title The Tragedy of a Generation : The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe / Joshua M. Karlip.
Author Karlip, Joshua M., author.
ISBN 9780674074941
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074941
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
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Description 1 online resource : 16 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674074941 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.54
Summary The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of the rise and fall of an ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential but overlooked strains of Jewish thought-Yiddishism and Diaspora Nationalism-and documents the waning hopes and painful reassessments of their leading representatives against the rising tide of Nazism and, later, the Holocaust. Joshua M. Karlip presents three figures-Elias Tcherikower, Yisroel Efroikin, and Zelig Kalmanovitch-seen through the lens of Imperial Russia on the brink of revolution. Leaders in the struggle for recognition of the Jewish people as a national entity, these men would prove instrumental in formulating the politics of Diaspora Nationalism, a middle path that rejected both the Zionist emphasis on Palestine and the Marxist faith in class struggle. Closely allied with this ideology was Yiddishism, a movement whose adherents envisioned the Yiddish language and culture, not religious tradition, as the unifying force of Jewish identity. We follow Tcherikower, Efroikin, and Kalmanovitch as they navigate the tumultuous early decades of the twentieth century in pursuit of a Jewish national renaissance in Eastern Europe. Correcting the misconception of Yiddishism as a radically secular movement, Karlip uncovers surprising confluences between Judaism and the avowedly nonreligious forms of Jewish nationalism. An essential contribution to Jewish historiography, The Tragedy of a Generation is a probing and poignant chronicle of lives shaped by ideological conviction and tested to the limits by historical crisis.
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Frontmatter
Contents
A Word about Transliteration
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE :Diaspora Nationalism and Yiddishism in Late Imperial Russia
CHAPTER TWO: Catastrophe and Renaissance during World War I
CHAPTER THREE: Losing Russia as a Base
CHAPTER FOUR: At the Crossroads
CHAPTER FIVE: The Holocaust
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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