CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Strakhova, Anastasiia |
|---|---|
| Title | The Image of America on the Pages of the Russian-Jewish Journal Voskhod (1881-1906) |
| Summary | The Russian-Jewish press signalized attempts of the Jewish elites to come closer to the Russian people, which was also in the agenda of the monthly Voskhod [The Sunrise] (1881-1906) when it started to be published. Voskhod was destined to become a sort of paradigmatic example in studying the Jewish publishing in Russia. The language of publications and comparatively high price for the subscription determined the elitist status of Voskhod’s readership. Its editors, first Adolf Landau (1881-1899) and then Maxim Syrkin (1899-1906), managed to fight harsh censorship and “save” Voskhod, when other Jewish periodicals in Russian were shut down. Being the only Jewish paper in Russian for fifteen years (1885-1899) Voskhod had to accommodate the majority of existing among Jewish intelligentsia views. The aim of the present thesis is to study the image of America portrayed on the pages of the monthly Voskhod (1881-1906) and to examine attitudes towards emigration to America presented there. Studying relevant articles I reached the conclusion that it presented rather practical and opportunistic view on emigration, neither explicitly opposing it nor encouraging resettlement. This view challenges previous works, where authors associated assimilationist theories of Landau with the paper itself. |
| Supervisor | Wilke, Carsten; Miller, Michael |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/strakhova_anastasiia.pdf |
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