Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews

• Part I. New Dynamics?: 1. Crisis as a factor in modern Jewish politics, 1840 and 1881–2; 2. Jewish politics and the press: the 'reception' of the Alliance Israelite Universelle (1860); Part II. Revolution and War (1905–21): 3. Jewish politics and the Russian revolution of 1905; 4. 'Youth in revolt': An-sky's In Shtrom and the instant fictionalization of 1905; 5. Yosef Haim Brenner, the 'half-intelligentsia' and Russian-Jewish politics (1899–1908); 6. The paradoxical politics of marginality: thoughts on the Jewish situation during the years 1914–21; Part III. Ideological Conflict and Continuity: 7. The socialist opposition to Zionism in historical perspective; Part IV. Overseas: 8. The 'Yizkor' book of 1911 - a note on national myths in the second Aliya; 9. The bundists in America and the 'Zionist problem'; 10. S. M. Dubnov: historian and ideologist; 11. Assimilation and the Jews in nineteenth-century Europe: towards a new historiography?

"The essays in this collection constitute a fitting overview of Frankel's great strengths as a scholar, highlighting his versatility and ability to integrate his vast knowledge of Russian, European, and Jewish history into larger contexts. His syntheses of these questions provide us with an opportunity to look at historical questions in innovative ways. Reading this book reminds us why he will be so sorely missed." -Alexandra Korros, H-Judaic