The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History

by Sophie Dubnov-Erlich

Overview

" . . . a welcome and unusual glimpse of the private side of one of East European Jewry's most influential public figures." —American Historical Review

" . . . an absorbing introduction to one of the truly original thinkers in modern Jewish history." —Heritage Southwest Jewish Press

"For a complete picture of the Polish/Russian world of the twentieth century, this book should be required reading." —AJL Newsletter

This is a memoir and biography by an extraordinary woman about her father, a pioneer in the field of Jewish history as well as a leading political activist among East European Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book chronicles Dubnov's personal, professional, and ideological development during a period of intense change for the Jews of the Russian Empire, from the Haskalah to the first years of World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253318367
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	01/22/1991
Series:	The Modern Jewish Experience
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chronology
S.M. Dubnov: Historian and Ideologist
Jonathan Frankel

Introduction

1. Sources
2. On the School Bench
3. Rebellion
4. Wandering
5. In the Northern Capital
6. The Preacher of Free Thought
7. At the Crossroads
8. History Was Revealed to Me
9. The Odessa Literary Circle
10. The Spirit of the Past
11. Works and Days
12. Between Journalism and Poetry
13. Thoughts on Old and New Jewry
14. Farewell to the South
15. In the Jerusalem
16. Year of Revolution
17. The Moral of Terrible Days
18. Back in St. Petersburg
19. Unity in Variety
20. At Work on the Magnum Opus
21. On the Eve of War
22. The Thunder of Guns
23. The Great Upheaval
24. Into the Whirlpool
25. An Island amid the Elements
26. Meeting the West
27. Fulfilling the Vow
28. The Golden Autumn
29. Seventieth Birthday
30. In a New Nest
31. Victory over Loneliness
32. Work Continues
33. The Twilight of Europe
Epilogue
From the Author
Life with Grandfather by Victor Erlich

Glossary
Editor's Notes
Bibliography
Index

Illustrations on pp.iv, 35, and 64-69

Editorial Reviews

First published in Russian in 1950, this memoir and biography is by the daughter of the man who was a pioneer in the field of Jewish writing and a leading political activist among the East European Jews during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It chronicles Dubnov's personal, professional, and ideological development during a critical period of Russian and Jewish history. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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