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Author Karlip, Joshua M., 1971-

Title The tragedy of a generation : the rise and fall of Jewish nationalism in Eastern Europe / Joshua M. Karlip
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013

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Contents Diaspora nationalism and Yiddishism in late imperial Russia -- Catastrophe and Renaissance during World War I -- Losing Russia as a base -- At the crossroads -- The Holocaust
Summary The Tragedy of a Generation is the story of a failed ideal: an autonomous Jewish nation in Europe. It traces the origins of two influential 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 the Holocaust
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cherikover, I. M., 1881-1943.
Kalmanovitch, Zelig, 1885-1944.
Efroikin, Isroel 1884-
SUBJECT Cherikover, I. M., 1881-1943 fast
Efroikin, Isroel 1884- fast
Kalmanovitch, Zelig, 1885-1944 fast
Subject Jews -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Jewish nationalism -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Yiddishists -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Russia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Jewish socialists -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Labor Zionism -- Russia -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Russia -- Identity -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
Ethnic relations
Jewish nationalism
Jewish socialists
Jews
Jews -- Identity
Jews -- Intellectual life
Jews -- Politics and government
Labor Zionism
Yiddishists
SUBJECT Russia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Russia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012050489
ISBN 9780674074941
0674074947
0674074963
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