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- catalog abstract ""In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Safran introduces the English language reader to works that were much discussed in their own time, and she situates Jewish and non-Jewish writers together in the context they shared." "For nineteenth-century writers and readers, successful fictional characters were "types," literary creations that both mirrored and influenced the trajectories of real lives. Stories about Jewish assimilators and converts often juxtaposed two contrasting types: the sincere reformer or true convert who has experienced a complete transformation, and the secret recidivist or false convert whose real loyalties will never change. As Safran shows, writers borrowed these types from many sources, including the novel of education produced by the Jewish enlightenment movement (the Haskalah), the political rhetoric of "Positivist" Polish nationalism, the Bible, Shakespeare, and Slavic folk beliefs." "Rewriting the Jew casts new light on the concept of type itself and on the question of whether literature can transfigure readers. The classic story of Jewish assimilation describes readers who redesign themselves after the model of fictional characters in secular texts. The writers studied here, though, examine attempts at Jewish self-transformation while wondering about the reformability of personality. In looking at their works, Safran relates the modern Eastern European Jewish experience to a fundamental question of aesthetics: Can art change us?"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12002774.
- catalog coverage "Russia (Federation) Ethnic relations.".
- catalog coverage "Russia Ethnic relations.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""For nineteenth-century writers and readers, successful fictional characters were "types," literary creations that both mirrored and influenced the trajectories of real lives. Stories about Jewish assimilators and converts often juxtaposed two contrasting types: the sincere reformer or true convert who has experienced a complete transformation, and the secret recidivist or false convert whose real loyalties will never change. As Safran shows, writers borrowed these types from many sources, including the novel of education produced by the Jewish enlightenment movement (the Haskalah), the political rhetoric of "Positivist" Polish nationalism, the Bible, Shakespeare, and Slavic folk beliefs."".
- catalog description ""In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians furiously debated the "Jewish Question," more and more acculturating Jews, who dressed, spoke, and behaved like non-Jews, appeared in real life and in literature. This book examines stories about Jewish assimilation by four authors: Grigory Bogrov, a Russian Jew; Eliza Orzeszkowa, a Polish Catholic; and Nikolai Leskov and Anton Chekhov, both Eastern Orthodox Russians. Safran introduces the English language reader to works that were much discussed in their own time, and she situates Jewish and non-Jewish writers together in the context they shared."".
- catalog description ""Rewriting the Jew casts new light on the concept of type itself and on the question of whether literature can transfigure readers. The classic story of Jewish assimilation describes readers who redesign themselves after the model of fictional characters in secular texts. The writers studied here, though, examine attempts at Jewish self-transformation while wondering about the reformability of personality. In looking at their works, Safran relates the modern Eastern European Jewish experience to a fundamental question of aesthetics: Can art change us?"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "An Unprecedented Type of Human Being / Grigory Bogrov -- The Nation and the Wide World / Eliza Orzeszkowa -- Jew as Text, Jew as Reader / Nikolai Leskov -- Mutable, Permutable, Approximate, and Relative / Anton Chekhov.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii. 269 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0804738300 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation) Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Russia (Federation)".
- catalog spatial "Russia Ethnic relations.".
- catalog spatial "Russia".
- catalog spatial "Russia.".
- catalog subject "305.892/4047 21".
- catalog subject "Acculturation Russia.".
- catalog subject "DS148 .S34 2000".
- catalog subject "Jews Cultural assimilation Russia.".
- catalog subject "Jews Russia (Federation) Identity.".
- catalog subject "Jews Russia (Federation) Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Jews Russia Identity.".
- catalog subject "Jews Russia Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion Russia.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An Unprecedented Type of Human Being / Grigory Bogrov -- The Nation and the Wide World / Eliza Orzeszkowa -- Jew as Text, Jew as Reader / Nikolai Leskov -- Mutable, Permutable, Approximate, and Relative / Anton Chekhov.".
- catalog title "Rewriting the Jew : assimilation narratives in the Russian empire / Gabriella Safran.".
- catalog type "text".