Inna Shtakser
Status and Affiliation
Degree:
- PhD
Affiliation:
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Special Interests
- Working-class Jewish revolutionary youth milieu in the Pale of Settlement during the first Russian revolution.
Recent Project
Working-Class Jewish Youth of the Pale and Adoption of Revolutionary Identity 1905-1907
My work analyzes the combination of change in both “structure of feeling” and social identity among working-class Jewish youth of the Pale of Settlement during the first Russian revolution. I claim that these changes eventually resulted in the creation of a new image that a young Jew could choose for her/himself - an image of a working-class Jewish revolutionary. It also contributed to a greater openness of the Jewish community to the idea of a secular Jew. The revolutionary youth created a new cultural space within the hierarchy of the Jewish community, based on their combined new and old identities as revolutionaries and Jews.
- Type: Manuscript
- Period covered: 1905-07
- Written Language: English
- Started: 2007
- Availabilty: Unpublished as yet, but this is a reworking of my dissertation which is available online.