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Questionable People: Inventing Modern Jewish Selves in the Russian Empire, 1860-1890

Questionable People: Inventing Modern Jewish Selves in the Russian Empire, 1860-1890

Natkovich, Svetlana

Hardcover

Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art

JudaismRussian History

ISBN10: 0815638604
ISBN13: 9780815638605
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Jun 16 2025
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.09
Language: English

In the 1860s, a series of reforms imposed by Tsar Alexander II dramatically began modernizing and reshaping life in imperial Russia. However, for a generation of Jewish artists and intellectuals educated under earlier doctrines, the reforms became an opportunity to interrogate and construct a new view of Jewish identity. Questionable People: Inventing Modern Jewish Selves in the Russian Empire, 1860-1890 explores how these young intellectuals, the maskilim, used self-expression, fashion, dress, and their artistic work to define themselves. Differentiating themselves from what came before, maskilim crafted Jewish identities within a modernizing Russia.

While many surveys of the Great Reforms and Jews in the Russian Empire examine assimilation and urbanization,

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