{"product_id":"culture-front-representing-jews-in-eastern-europe-hardcover","title":"Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Nathans\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGabriella Safran\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCulture 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 \u003ci\u003eCulture Front\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Nathans\u003c\/b\u003e is Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eGabriella Safran\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with Steven Zipperstein) of \u003ci\u003eThe Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eCulture Front\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52932098228531,"sku":"9780812240559","price":121.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QUBNn_5bTl9780812240559.webp?v=1767866122","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/culture-front-representing-jews-in-eastern-europe-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}