Russian Jewish Diaspora and European Culture, 1917-1937

Jörg Schulte, Ph.D. (2003), is a Honarary research associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at UCL. He has been a fellow at The Warburg Institute in London and has been teaching at the universities of Hamburg and Warsaw. His publications include Eine Poetik der Offenbarung: Isaak Babel’ – Bruno Schulz – Danilo Kiš (Harrassowitz, 2004) and Jan Kochanowski und die europäische Renaissance (Harrassowitz, 2012).Olga Tabachnikova, Ph.D. (2007), University of Bath, has been working at the universities of Bath and Bristol. She has published widely in the field of European philosophical and literary studies, with the main focus on Russian cultural history. Her recent publications include Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers (editor, Anthem, 2010) and Unpublished Correspondence between Lev Shestov and Boris de Schloezer (YMCA, 2011). Peter J. Wagstaff, Ph.D. (1981), University of Exeter, teaches French and European Studies at the University of Bath. He has published extensively on French and other European narratives of migration and exile, including Cultures of Exile (Berghahn, 2004) and Border Crossings (Lang, 2004).

• IntroductionFrançois Guesnet PART ONE: RUSSIAN JEWISH TRANSLATORS AND WRITERSSchiller’s Wilhelm Tell in Bialik’s Translation (1923)Anat FeinbergBialik’s Translation of Don Quixote (1912/1923)Marianna PrigozhinaVogel and the CityGlenda AbramsonMarginalia of the Hebrew Revival: The Enrichment of Literary Hebrew through Calques of Russian Phrases and Literary Images (Elisheva and Leah Goldberg) [translated by Jörg Schulte]Zoya KopelmanPART TWO: INTERPRETATIONS OF PAST AND PRESENT OF JEWISH CULTURERussian-Jewish Ideas in German Dress: Elias Bickerman on the Hellenizing Reformers of Jewish Antiquity Albert BaumgartenNahum Slouschz (1871-1966) and his Contribution to the Hebrew RenaissanceJörg SchulteCultural Anxieties of Russian-Jewish Émigrés: Max Eitingon and Lev ShestovOlga TabachnikovaPinḥas Rutenberg and Vladimir Burtsev: Some Unknown Aspects of the Connection between Palestine and the Russian Emigration in EuropeVladimir Khazan An Enclave in Time? Russian-Jewish Berlin RevisitedOlaf TerpitzBergelson, Benjamin, and Berlin: Justice DeferredHarriet MuravPART THREE: NEW SOURCES ON RUSSIAN JEWISH INFLUENCES IN MUSIC, ART AND PUBLISHINGIf Moscow were Paris… Russia, the Soviet Union and Birobidzhan as Points of Reference in the Yiddish Press of ParisAgnieszka W. WierzcholskaDer Einfluss der jüdischen kulturellen Renaissance in Osteuropa auf das Musikleben in Wien (1919–1938)Jascha NemtsovThe Graphic Work of Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935): an Outstanding Example of Children’s Book Art Serge-Aljosja Stommels and Albert Lemmens’A Beautiful Lie’ - Zhar Ptitsa (The Firebird): Sustaining Jour¬nalistic Activity and Showcasing Russia in 1920s BerlinSusanne Marten-FinnisThe Absence of a Jewish Russian Legacy in France: Ben-Ami’s Testimony and the Schwartzbard AffairBoris CzernyIdeology and Identity: El Lissitzky in BerlinChristina LodderPART FOUR: REPOSITORIES OF THE RUSSIAN JEWISH DIASPORASimon Dubnow and the Question of Jewish Emigration in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyViktor Kel’ner‘Immortalizing the Crime in History…’: The Activities of the ‘Ostjüdisches Historisches Archiv’ (Kiev—Berlin—Paris, 1920-1940) Efim MelamedFrom a Russian-Jewish Philanthropic Organization to the ‘Glorious Institute of World Jewry’: Activities of the World ORT Union in the 1920s – 1940s Alexander Ivanov Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky and His Recently Discovered Works: Problems of Attribution and AnalysisLeonid Katsis