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Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (review)

Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (review) T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 94, No. 3 (Summer 2004) 542­544 STEVEN J. ZIPPERSTEIN. Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity. Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xii 139. In this accessible and lucid book, Steven Zipperstein ponders the broad question of the interplay between history and memory, relating it specifically to the reconstruction of the Russian-Jewish past. Zipperstein illuminates the particular historiographic tensions experienced by historians of Jewish Eastern Europe who must balance both being scholars and vessels of collective memory as they reconstruct the past for Jews in America--the cultural and demographic center of the East European Jewish Diaspora--who have been cut off from their past by migration, the devastation of the Holocaust, and the inaccessibility (until recently) of East European archival material. In four essays, Zipperstein summons an impressive array of cultural texts and historical sources as he explores such topics as the image of the shtetl, education and the heder, Russian Jewish life in Odessa, and the Holocaust's influence on the writing of East European Jewish http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity (review)

Kobrin, Rebecca.
Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 94 (3) – Jan 4, 2004
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T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 94, No. 3 (Summer 2004) 542­544 STEVEN J. ZIPPERSTEIN. Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity. Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Pp. xii 139. In this accessible and lucid book, Steven Zipperstein ponders the broad question of the interplay between history and memory, relating it specifically to the reconstruction of the Russian-Jewish past. Zipperstein illuminates the particular historiographic tensions experienced by historians of Jewish Eastern Europe who must balance both being scholars and vessels of collective memory as they reconstruct the past for Jews in America--the cultural and demographic center of the East European Jewish Diaspora--who have been cut off from their past by migration, the devastation of the Holocaust, and the inaccessibility (until recently) of East European archival material. In four essays, Zipperstein summons an impressive array of cultural texts and historical sources as he explores such topics as the image of the shtetl, education and the heder, Russian Jewish life in Odessa, and the Holocaust's influence on the writing of East European Jewish

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