The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews

Introduction -Benjamin Nathans PART I. REASSESSING THE 1905 REVOLUTION 1. Interpreting 1905 -Abraham Ascher 2. Nicholas II and the Revolution -Richard Wortman PART II. THE OLD REGIME CONFRONTS ITS "JEWISH QUESTION" 3. A Note on the Jewish Press and Censorship during the First Russian Revolution -Dmitrii Elyashevich 4. The Russian Right Responds to 1905: Visual Depictions of Jews in Postrevolutionary Russia -Robert Weinberg 5. "The Jewish Question" in the Tsarist Army in the Early Twentieth Century -Semion Goldin PART III. 1905 AS A CROSSROADS FOR THE EMPIRE'S JEWS 6. Victory from Defeat: 1905 and the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia -Brian Horowitz 7. The Generation of 1905 and the Politics of Despair: Alienation, Friendship, Community -Scott Ury 8. The Jewish Socialist Parties in Russia in the Period of Reaction -Vladimir Levin 9. 1905 as a Watershed in Polish-Jewish Relations -Theodore R. Weeks PART IV. CULTURAL REFLECTIONS OF REVOLUTION 10. Polish Literature's Portrayal of Jewish Involvement in 1905 -Agnieszka Friedrich 11 Rebellion in Writing: Yosef Haim Brenner and the 1905 Revolution -Hannan Hever 12. The Revolutionary Origins of Yiddish Scholarship, 1903-1917 -Barry Trachtenberg 13. 1905 as a Jewish Cultural Revolution? Revolutionary and Evolutionary Dynamics in the East European Jewish Cultural Sphere, 1900-1914 -Kenneth Moss 14. Jewish Cultural Associations in the Aftermath of 1905 -Jeffrey Veidlinger 15. Writing between the Lines: 1905 in the Soviet Yiddish Novel of the Stalinist Period -Mikhail Krutikov PART V. OVERSEAS RIPPLES: 1905 AND AMERICAN JEWRY 16. The 1905 Revolution Abroad: Mass Migration, Russian Jewish Liberalism and American Jewry, 1903-1914 -Rebecca Kobrin 17. Democracy and Assimilation: The Jews, America, and the Russian Crisis from Kishinev to the End of World War I -Eli Lederhendler Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments