The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-270-3 (ISBN)
The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.
Alice Nakhimovsky is Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Russian at Colgate University. Her books include Russian Jewish Literature and Identity, Dear Mendl, and Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals in Russia and America, written with Roberta Newman, which won a National Jewish Book Award.
A Note on Transcription
Preface
Introduction: The Soviet-Jewish Historical Calendar and Moral Decision-Making, 1890 to 1953
1. Origins
Doba-Mera Medvedeva: A Working Girl Seeks a Future
Leyb Kvitko: Shtetl, Poetry, Violence
Solomon Lozovsky: Blacksmith, Autodidact, Orator
2. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part I
Leyb Kvitko: Transformations
Solomon Lozovsky: Fighter, Compromiser, Fiction Writer
Lina Shtern: A Career in Science and a Fateful Choice
Doba-Mera Medvedeva: Two Borders, Poor Choices
3. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part I
Nadezhda and Alexander Ulanovsky: Anarchism to Espionage
Mary Leder: Santa Monica, Birobidzhan, Moscow
Lilianna Lungina: A German Child, a French Child, a Soviet Adolescent
4. Negotiating the Late 1930s: Terror and Career
Kvitko: Prosperity and Compromise
Mary Leder: Close Encounters
Nadezhda Ulanovskaya: Communications and Failed Communications
Vasily Grossman: Jews vs Bolsheviks, and Jewish Bolsheviks
5. War: 1941–1945
Kvitko: Despair and Faith
Shtern: Iconoclasm
Leder: Evacuation and Trauma
Medvedeva: Evacuation without Privilege, Grief beyond Resentment
Grossman: A Personal Quest
6. Jews, Scientists, and the Trial of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, 1944–1952
Kvitko: “I don’t value my life. I want to leave here with a pure heart”
Lozovsky: “I can’t look Academician Shtern in the eyes”
Shtern: “I always tell the truth”
Grossman: Scientists and Old Bolsheviks
7. Jews, Doctors, and Aliens
Nadezhda Ulanovskaya: Foreign Connections
Mary Leder: Endgame
Lilianna Lungina: Reality and Rumor
Vasily Grossman: A Novel and a Letter
8. What Happened Next
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Brighton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-88719-270-3 / 9798887192703 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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