The life and work of S.M. Dubnov : diaspora nationalism and Jewish history
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Bibliographic Information
The life and work of S.M. Dubnov : diaspora nationalism and Jewish history
(The modern Jewish experience)
Indiana University Press, c1991
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Zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo S.M. Dubnova
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Published in association with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research"
Translation of: Zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo S.M. Dubnova
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
" . . . 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.
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
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