 | Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere. Benjamin Nathans is Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia. Gabriella Safran is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. She is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire and coeditor (with Steven Zipperstein) of The Worlds of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century. |
