Russian IdeaJewish Presence

In Russian IdeaJewish Presence, Professor Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible. In fact, the best Russian-Jewish intellectualsSemyon Dubnov, Maxim Vinaver, Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkerswere actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.