Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey, 1971-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2009.
Series:The modern Jewish experience
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Jewish public culture
  • The Jews of this world
  • Libraries: from the study hall to the public library
  • Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time
  • Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture
  • Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word
  • Theater: the professionalization of performance
  • Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences
  • The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past
  • Public history: imagining Russian Jews
  • Conclusion: this world and the next.