6. “Both Crisis and Continuity”: A Reinterpretation of Late-Tsarist Russian Jewry

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. List of Illustrations 9
4. Acknowledgements 10
5. Note on transliteration 12
6. Introduction 13
7. I. Varieties of Russian-Jewish History: Liberals, Zionists, and Diaspora Nationalists
8. 1. The Russian Roots of Semyon Dubnov’s Life and Thought 17
9. 2. Maxim Vinaver and the First Russian State Duma 37
10. 3. What Is “Russian” in Russian Zionism? Synthetic Zionism and the Fate of Avram Idel’son 54
11. 4. An Innovative Agent of an Alternative Jewish Politics: The Odessa Branch of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia 72
12. 5. Politics and National Self-Projection: The Image of Jewish Masses in Russian-Jewish Historiography, 1860-1914 87
13. 6. “Both Crisis and Continuity”: A Reinterpretation of Late-Tsarist Russian Jewry 105
14. 7. Crystallizing Memory: Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia Abroad and Forms of Self-Projection 124
15. II. M. O. Gershenzon and the Intellectual Life of Russia’s Silver Age
16. 8. M. O. Gershenzon — Metaphysical Historian of Russia’s Silver Age: Part 1 141
17. 9. M. O. Gershenzon — Metaphysical Historian of Russia’s Silver Age: Part 2 171
18. 10. “…To Break Free of Centuries-Old Complications, of the Abominable Fetters of Social and Abstract Ideas”: M. O. Gershenzon’s Side in the Correspondence Across a Room 198
19. 11. Unity and Disunity in Landmarks (Vekhi): The Rivalry between Pyotr Struve and Mikhail Gershenzon 213
20. 12. M. O. Gershenzon and Georges Florovsky: Metaphysical Philosophers of Russian History 229
21. 13. From the Annals of the Literary Life of Russia’s Silver Age: The Tempestuous Relationship of S. A. Vengerov and M. O. Gershenzon 239
22. 14. M. O. Gershenzon, the Intellectual Circle, and the Perception of Leader in Russia’s Silver-Age Culture 258
23. Bibliography 275
24. Appendix A: Jewish Monuments in Russia at the Turn of the 20th Century (From the William Brumfield Collection) 288
25. Appendix B: Rare Photographs of Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon and his Family 294
26. Index 301