Russian-Jewish Intellectuals Confront the Pogroms of 1881: The Example of "Razsvet"
The pogroms of 1881 in the south of Russia had a profound impact on the Russian-Jewish intelligentsia. Many educated Russian Jews, especially those involved in revolutionary politics, had entered the ranks of the intelligentsia by becoming "Russified" and turning their backs on their Jewis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
1993
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 1993, Volume: 84, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 129-152 |
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| Summary: | The pogroms of 1881 in the south of Russia had a profound impact on the Russian-Jewish intelligentsia. Many educated Russian Jews, especially those involved in revolutionary politics, had entered the ranks of the intelligentsia by becoming "Russified" and turning their backs on their Jewish origins. The pogroms, because they targeted Jews specifically and because they enjoyed considerable support among non-Jewish members of the revolutionary intelligentsia, brought about a new militancy among even politically moderate Jewish intellectuals. The Russian-Jewish weekly "Razsvet," published from 1879 to 1883 by a group of moderate Jewish intellectuals, provides a glimpse of the process by which militancy and a renewed sense of Jewish identity emerged simultaneously. An examination of the newspaper beginning right after the assassination of Alexander II in March 1881, through the period of the pogroms, and during subsequent months, shows that the paper's editors and writers moved quickly from a position of patriotic devotion to the late Tsar, to a militant indictment of government policies regarding the Jews, to a call for mass emigration as a response to rapidly deteriorating political conditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1455350 |