The Russian Pogroms in Hebrew Literature and the Subversion of the Martyrological Ideal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12013295 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Mintz (University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 263-300 |
| Publication date | 1982-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0364-0094 • E-ISSN: 1475-4541 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0364009400000714 |
| OpenAlex | W2077786960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
The developments triggered or accelerated by the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1881–1882 in Russia form a panorama of East European Jewish history at the end of the century: Zionism, the Bund, mass emigration and mass pauperization. The role of Hebrew literature in responding to these pogroms as well as to the later round of violence between 1903 and 1905 is significant for two reasons. In its own setting, Hebrew literature is crucial to an analysis of the consciousness of the period because it represents the response of an important segment of the intelligentsia of Russian Jewry, namely, those who associated themselves with national revival and its cultural medium, Hebrew. Hebrew fiction and poetry on the pogroms are also significant when studied in a vertical perspective, that is, in relationship to an evolved and elaborate set of traditions of response to catastrophe in Hebrew sources from the Bible and midrash through the piyyutim, chronicles, and consolation texts of the Middle Ages. Hebrew writing between 1881 and 1905 both partakes of that tradition and rebels against it, and in so doing reconstitutes the tradition; and it is that new tradition which must be confronted, evaded, or subverted when the literary imagination faces the more destructive pogroms of the World War I period and later the Holocaust itself
Art · Hebrew · Intelligentsia · Jewish literature · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Midrash · Political science · Politics · Subversion · The Holocaust · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
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| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |