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maryxmasDear friends and colleagues,
Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the release of the forth issue of AI in 2003. Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English-Russian) quarterly dedicated to studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the post Soviet Space.
Materials of this issue written from different disciplinary perspectives (theory, history, sociology, political science, anthropology) address the theme of "THE LIMITS OF MARGINALITY: JEWS AS INORODTSY OF CONTINENTAL EMPIRES" (see below the Table of Contents). International group of contributors of this issue explore various aspects of history of Russian and East European Jewry in the context of multinational empires, suggest new interpretations of Jewish historical and present day experience, and review intellectual debates and historiographic trends in studies of Jewish and imperial history. This issue of the journal is already available online: http://www.abimperio.net
Ab Imperio announces the program of publications for 2004, and new
possibilities for ordering AI on line or through authorized distributors,
which may be found at the journal's website: http://www.abimperio.net/order
For any inquires, please, contact the editors at: office@abimperio.net,
semyonov@abimperio.net, glebov@rci.rutgers.edu , akaplunovski@abimperio.net
(The language of publication is indicated in brackets)
I. Methodology and Theory
>From the Editors
Jews as an “Imperial Nation”? (RUS/ENG)
Benjamin Nathans The Russian-Jewish Encounter (RUS)
John D. Klier Why Were Russian Jews Not Kaisertreu?(ENG)
Trude Maurer Western Jews? Eastern Jews? Acculturation as a Paradigm of
Comparative Jewish History in Germany and Eastern Europe (RUS)
II. History
IMAGINING THE "IMPERIAL JEW"
Zita Medisauskiene
“Repulsive, Yet Indispensable:” The Jew as an Alter Ego of
the Lithuanian Nobleman in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (RUS)
Vladimir Rabinovich
Jewish or Siberian? (RUS)
Anke Hilbrenner
Simon Dubnov’s Master Narrative and the Construction of
Jewish Collective Memory in the Russian Empire (ENG)
Jeffrey Veidlinger
The Historical and Ethnographic Construction of Russian
Jewry (ENG)
THE IMPERIAL CITY AS A LOCUS OF JEWISH HISTORY
Natan Meir
Varieties of Jewish Philanthropy Among Kiev Jewry, 1859-1914
(RUS)
Gerald Surh
The Jews of Ekaterinoslav in 1905 as Seen from Town Hall: Ethnic
Relations on an Imperial Frontier (ENG)
David Wolff
The Jews of Manchuria: Harbin, 1903-1914 (RUS)
THE EMPIRE GOVERNS ITS JEWS: PARADOXES OF IMPERIAL JEWISH POLITICS
Eugene M. Avrutin
The Power of Documentation: Vital Statistics and Jewish
Accommodation in Tsarist Russia (ENG)
Albert Kaganovich
Russia “Absorbs” its Jews: Imperial Colonization, Jewish
Politics, and the Bukhara Jews (RUS)
JEWISH POLITICS, IMPERIAL LEGACIES, AND THE NATION-STATE IDEAL
Ziva Galili
The Soviet Experience of Zionism: Importing Soviet Political
Culture to Palestine (RUS)
David Shneer
Having It Both Ways: Jewish Nation Building and Jewish
Assimilation in the Soviet Empire (ENG)
III. Archive
Irina Sergeeva
“Going to the Jewish People”: The Ethnographic Expeditions of
Semen An-skii in Documents (RUS)
The Correspondence between Baron Gintsburg and S. An-skii on the
Ethnographic Expeditions in the Pale of Jewish Settlement (RUS)
IV. Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Natalia Iukhneva
Russian Jews as a New Subethnos (RUS)
Elena Nosenko
“Russian Jews”: A “Real” or “Invented” Community? (RUS)
V. ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern R
econceptualizing the Alien: Jews in Modern
Ukrainian Thought (ENG)
VI. Book Reviews Historiography
Historiography
Dennis Eoffe
The Jewry and Rus’ in a Rendez Vous of Interethnic Polytheism:
Some Peculiar Examples of the Contemporary Historiography of the “Jewish
Question” (RUS)
Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath
“Simulacra of Hatred”: On the Occasion of an
Historiographical Essay by Mr. Dennis Eoffe (on the Material of Early
Medieval Russia) (ENG)
Dennis Eoffe A Postscript to the Discussion (RUS)
Vladimir Petrukhin
On the Discussion about the Jews in Ancient Russia:
National Romanticism and “the Cheshire Cat’s Grin” (RUS)
Reviews
Йоханан Петровский Штерн, Евреи в русской армии: 1827-1914 гг. Москва, Новое
литературное обозрение, 2003. 555 С. Предметный, гкографический, именной
указатель. ISBN: 5-86793-202-8.
Александр Локшин (RUS)
Jewish Life in Lithuania. Exhibition catalogue (The Vilna Gaon Jewish State
Museum; The Lithuanian Institute of History; The Center for Civic
Initiatives; The Textbook Research and Information Centre for Baltic
Countries; The Verein Gedenkdienst, Vienna/Vilnius; The Anna Frank House,
Amsterdam) / Compiled: Ruta Puisite, Darius Staliunas. Kaunas, 2001. 222 p.
Photographs; in English, Lithuanian. ISBN:9986-34-090-X.
Alla Myzelev (ENG)
Robert H. Wiebe, Who We Are, A History of Popular Nationalism (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002). 268 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN:
0-691-09023-8.
Robert Stacy (ENG)
List of Contributors
Miscellaneous
Ab Imperio 2004: Call for Papers
Books for Reviews
***************
Alexander M. Semyonov
Editor, Central and Eastern Europe
"Ab Imperio" Quarterly on Theory of Nationalism
and History of Empire and Nationalities
in the Post-Soviet Space
Fax: 1+530 504 8962 Email: semyonov@abimperio.net
Assistant Professor,
Smolny College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences/St. Petersburg State University
199034, Russia, nab. L. Schmidta 11
office 410, phone: 7 812 3281719 fax: 7 812 3206949
visit "Ab Imperio" at http://www.abimperio.net
Ab Imperio editors are pleased to announce the release of the forth issue of AI in 2003. Ab Imperio is a bilingual (English-Russian) quarterly dedicated to studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the post Soviet Space.
Materials of this issue written from different disciplinary perspectives (theory, history, sociology, political science, anthropology) address the theme of "THE LIMITS OF MARGINALITY: JEWS AS INORODTSY OF CONTINENTAL EMPIRES" (see below the Table of Contents). International group of contributors of this issue explore various aspects of history of Russian and East European Jewry in the context of multinational empires, suggest new interpretations of Jewish historical and present day experience, and review intellectual debates and historiographic trends in studies of Jewish and imperial history. This issue of the journal is already available online: http://www.abimperio.net
Ab Imperio announces the program of publications for 2004, and new
possibilities for ordering AI on line or through authorized distributors,
which may be found at the journal's website: http://www.abimperio.net/order
For any inquires, please, contact the editors at: office@abimperio.net,
semyonov@abimperio.net, glebov@rci.rutgers.edu , akaplunovski@abimperio.net
(The language of publication is indicated in brackets)
I. Methodology and Theory
>From the Editors
Jews as an “Imperial Nation”? (RUS/ENG)
Benjamin Nathans The Russian-Jewish Encounter (RUS)
John D. Klier Why Were Russian Jews Not Kaisertreu?(ENG)
Trude Maurer Western Jews? Eastern Jews? Acculturation as a Paradigm of
Comparative Jewish History in Germany and Eastern Europe (RUS)
II. History
IMAGINING THE "IMPERIAL JEW"
Zita Medisauskiene
“Repulsive, Yet Indispensable:” The Jew as an Alter Ego of
the Lithuanian Nobleman in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (RUS)
Vladimir Rabinovich
Jewish or Siberian? (RUS)
Anke Hilbrenner
Simon Dubnov’s Master Narrative and the Construction of
Jewish Collective Memory in the Russian Empire (ENG)
Jeffrey Veidlinger
The Historical and Ethnographic Construction of Russian
Jewry (ENG)
THE IMPERIAL CITY AS A LOCUS OF JEWISH HISTORY
Natan Meir
Varieties of Jewish Philanthropy Among Kiev Jewry, 1859-1914
(RUS)
Gerald Surh
The Jews of Ekaterinoslav in 1905 as Seen from Town Hall: Ethnic
Relations on an Imperial Frontier (ENG)
David Wolff
The Jews of Manchuria: Harbin, 1903-1914 (RUS)
THE EMPIRE GOVERNS ITS JEWS: PARADOXES OF IMPERIAL JEWISH POLITICS
Eugene M. Avrutin
The Power of Documentation: Vital Statistics and Jewish
Accommodation in Tsarist Russia (ENG)
Albert Kaganovich
Russia “Absorbs” its Jews: Imperial Colonization, Jewish
Politics, and the Bukhara Jews (RUS)
JEWISH POLITICS, IMPERIAL LEGACIES, AND THE NATION-STATE IDEAL
Ziva Galili
The Soviet Experience of Zionism: Importing Soviet Political
Culture to Palestine (RUS)
David Shneer
Having It Both Ways: Jewish Nation Building and Jewish
Assimilation in the Soviet Empire (ENG)
III. Archive
Irina Sergeeva
“Going to the Jewish People”: The Ethnographic Expeditions of
Semen An-skii in Documents (RUS)
The Correspondence between Baron Gintsburg and S. An-skii on the
Ethnographic Expeditions in the Pale of Jewish Settlement (RUS)
IV. Sociology, Ethnology, Political Science
Natalia Iukhneva
Russian Jews as a New Subethnos (RUS)
Elena Nosenko
“Russian Jews”: A “Real” or “Invented” Community? (RUS)
V. ABC: Empire & Nationalism Studies
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern R
econceptualizing the Alien: Jews in Modern
Ukrainian Thought (ENG)
VI. Book Reviews Historiography
Historiography
Dennis Eoffe
The Jewry and Rus’ in a Rendez Vous of Interethnic Polytheism:
Some Peculiar Examples of the Contemporary Historiography of the “Jewish
Question” (RUS)
Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath
“Simulacra of Hatred”: On the Occasion of an
Historiographical Essay by Mr. Dennis Eoffe (on the Material of Early
Medieval Russia) (ENG)
Dennis Eoffe A Postscript to the Discussion (RUS)
Vladimir Petrukhin
On the Discussion about the Jews in Ancient Russia:
National Romanticism and “the Cheshire Cat’s Grin” (RUS)
Reviews
Йоханан Петровский Штерн, Евреи в русской армии: 1827-1914 гг. Москва, Новое
литературное обозрение, 2003. 555 С. Предметный, гкографический, именной
указатель. ISBN: 5-86793-202-8.
Александр Локшин (RUS)
Jewish Life in Lithuania. Exhibition catalogue (The Vilna Gaon Jewish State
Museum; The Lithuanian Institute of History; The Center for Civic
Initiatives; The Textbook Research and Information Centre for Baltic
Countries; The Verein Gedenkdienst, Vienna/Vilnius; The Anna Frank House,
Amsterdam) / Compiled: Ruta Puisite, Darius Staliunas. Kaunas, 2001. 222 p.
Photographs; in English, Lithuanian. ISBN:9986-34-090-X.
Alla Myzelev (ENG)
Robert H. Wiebe, Who We Are, A History of Popular Nationalism (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002). 268 pp. Bibliography, Index. ISBN:
0-691-09023-8.
Robert Stacy (ENG)
List of Contributors
Miscellaneous
Ab Imperio 2004: Call for Papers
Books for Reviews
***************
Alexander M. Semyonov
Editor, Central and Eastern Europe
"Ab Imperio" Quarterly on Theory of Nationalism
and History of Empire and Nationalities
in the Post-Soviet Space
Fax: 1+530 504 8962 Email: semyonov@abimperio.net
Assistant Professor,
Smolny College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences/St. Petersburg State University
199034, Russia, nab. L. Schmidta 11
office 410, phone: 7 812 3281719 fax: 7 812 3206949
visit "Ab Imperio" at http://www.abimperio.net
