Jewish public culture in the late Russian empire
By: Jeffrey Veidlinger.
Series: The modern Jewish experience
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780253352873; 9780253220585
Subjects: Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jewish public culture; title: The Jews of this world; title: Libraries: from the study hall to the public library; title: Reading: from sacred duty to leisure time; title: Literary societies: the culture of language and the language of culture; title: Cultural performance: the people of the book and the spoken word; title: Theater: the professionalization of performance; title: Musical and dramatic societies: amateur performers and audiences; title: The Jewish historical and ethnographic society: collecting the Jewish past; title: Public history: imagining Russian Jews; title: Conclusion: this world and the next.