Olga LitvakConscription and the Search for Modern Russian Jewry
Contents
A Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Literary Response to Conscription and the Persistence of
Enlightenment in Russian-Jewish Culture
1. Stepchildren of the Tsar: Jewish Cantonists and the Official Origins of
Russian Jewry
2. Great Expectations: The Beginnings of Cantonist Literature and the
Emancipation of Russian-Jewish Consciousness
3. The Romance of Enlightenment: Gender and the Critique of
Embourgeoisement in the Recruitment Novels of I. M. Dik, Grigorii Bogrov,
and J. L. Gordon
4. Return of the Native: The Nicholaevan Universe of Sh. J. Abramovich and
the Enlightenment Origins of Russian-Jewish Populism
5. Dead Children of the Hebrew Renaissance: The Conscription Story as
Nationalist Myth
6. The Writing of Conscription History and the Making of the Russian-Jewish
Diaspora
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
