In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians 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, introducing the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their time.
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In the Russian Empire of the 1870s and 1880s, while intellectuals and politicians 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, introducing the English-language reader to works that were much discussed in their time.
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, xx, 269 pp. Contents: An Unprecedented Type of Human Being: Grigory Bogrov; The Nation & the Wide World: Eliza Orzeszkowa; Jew as Text, Jew as Reader: Nikolai Leskov; Mutable, Permutable, Approximate, & Relative: Anton Chekhov; Conclusion.
