List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Russian-Jewish Cultural Retention in Early Twentieth Century Western Europe: Contexts and Theoretical Implications; Part One Russian Jewish Translators and Writers; Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in Bialik's Translation; Bialik's Translation of Don Quixote (1912/1923); Vogel and the City; Marginalia of the Hebrew Renaissance: The Enrichment of Literary Hebrew through Calques of Russian Phrases in the Works of Elisheva and Leah Goldberg; Part Two Interpretations of Past and Present of Jewish Culture
Russian-Jewish Ideas in German Dress: Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing Reformers of Jewish AntiquityNahum Slouschz (1871-1966) and His Contribution to the Hebrew Renaissance; Cultural Anxieties of Russian-Jewish Emigrés: Max Eitingon and Lev Shestov; Pinh?as Rutenberg and Vladimir Burtsev: Some Unknown Aspects of the Connection between Palestine and the Russian Emigration in Europe; An Enclave in Time? Russian-Jewish Berlin Revisited; Bergelson, Benjamin and Berlin: Justice Deferred; Part Three New Sources on Russian Jewish Influences in Music, Art and Publishing
If Moscow were Paris: Russia, the Soviet Union and Birobidzhan as Points of Reference in the Yiddish Press of ParisDer Einfluss der Jüdischen kulturellen Renaissance in Osteuropa auf das Musiklebenin Wien (1919-1938); The Graphic Work of Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935): An Outstanding Example of Children's Book Art; 'A Beautiful Lie'--Zhar-Ptitsa (The Firebird): Sustaining Journalistic Activity and Showcasing Russia in 1920s Berlin; The Absence of a Jewish Russian Legacy in France: Ben-Ami's Testimony and the Schwartzbard Affair; Ideology and Identity: El Lissitzky in Berlin
Part Four Repositories of the Russian Jewish DiasporaSimon Dubnow and the Question of Jewish Emigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century; 'Immortalizing the Crime in History ... ': The Activities of the Ostjüdisches Historisches Archiv (Kiev--Berlin--Paris, 1920-1940); From a Russian-Jewish Philanthropic Organization to the 'Glorious Institute of World Jewry': Activities of the World ORT Union in the 1920s-1940s; Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky and His Recently Discovered Works: Problems of Attribution and Analysis; Index of Names
Summary
This book traces the impact on Jewish culture in Western Europe of the migration of Russian Jews following the 1917 Revolution as they enabled the creation of a single sphere of Jewish culture common to all parts of the European diaspora
