The Yeshiva and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

Marina Zilbergerts's impressively informed book provides a fresh perspective on the Hebrew literature written in Russia in the nineteenth century in two ways: it persuasively shows how enmeshed the Hebrew works were in the Russian intellectual trends of the era, especially Nihilism; and it makes a good case that the yeshiva experience, formative for most of these writers, was not cast aside, as of...