Russian Idea-Jewish Presence

In Russian Idea-Jewish 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 intellectuals-Semyon Dubnov Maxim Vinaver Mikhail Gershenzon and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers-were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a sui generis Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.