Culture Front Representing Jews in Eastern Europe Edited by
Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran For most of the last four
centuries, the broad expanse of territory between the Baltic and
the Black Seas, known since the Enlightenment as "Eastern Europe,"
has been home to the world's largest Jewish population. The Jews of
Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Galicia, Romania, and Ukraine were
prodigious generators of modern Jewish culture. Their volatile
blend of religious traditionalism and precocious quests for
collective self-emancipation lies at the heart of "Culture Front."
This volume brings together contributions by both historians and
literary scholars to take readers on a journey across the cultural
history of East European Jewry from the mid-seventeenth century to
the present. The articles collected here explore how Jews and their
Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations
of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs,
museums, and more. The book puts culture at the forefront of
analysis, treating verbal artistry itself as a kind of frontier
through which Jews and Slavs imagined, experienced, and negotiated
with themselves and each other. The four sections investigate the
distinctive themes of that frontier: violence and civility; popular
culture; politics and aesthetics; and memory. The result is a fresh
exploration of ideas and movements that helped change the landscape
of modern Jewish history. Benjamin Nathans is Ronald S. Lauder
Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of
Pennsylvania and the author of "Beyond the Pale: The Jewish
Encounter with Late Imperial Russia." Gabriella Safran is Associate
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford
University. She is the author of "Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation
Narratives in the Russian Empire" and coeditor (with Steven
Zipperstein) of "The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish
Intellectual at the Turn of the Century." Jewish Culture and
Contexts 2008 336 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-4055-9 Cloth $65.00s
42.50 World Rights Religion, History Short copy: 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.
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