Contents -- List of Contributors -- Leonid F. Katsis and Helen Tolstoy. Introduction: Judaica Rossica - Rossica Judaica -- PART ONE. JEWS SPEAK TO THE EMPIRE - THE EMPIRE CREATES ITS IMAGE OF THE JEW -- Olga Minkina. The Jewish Elite in the Russian Empire of the Late 18th - Early 19th Centuries: Toward a Rhetoric of Self-Presentation -- Mikhail Weisskopf. "Diabolic Delight": New Materials to the Jewish Theme in Russian Romanticism -- PART TWO. THE SILVER AGE AND THE JEWS -- Helen Tolstoy. Akim Volynsky and His Jewish Cycle -- Volynsky's First Jewish Apologies -- Volynsky's Hyperborean Myth -- The Jew as Theater -- Rembrandt -- Galina Eliasberg. The Drama of Faith and the National Question in Russian Jewish Playwrights 1880-1910 -- Vladimir M. Paperni. A Philo-Semitic Narrative in the Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Case of Vyacheslav Ivanov -- PART THREE. THE RUSSIAN-JEWISH DIALOG IN REVOLUTION YEARS -- Brian Horowitz. Reflection through Revolution: M.O. Gershenzon's Side in the Correspondence from Two Corners -- Leonid F. Katsis. The Discussions on Fedor Dostoevsky at the Moscow Branch of the St.-Petersburg "Free Philosophic Association" as a Russian-Jewish Dialogue -- PART FOUR. THE TWENTIES: STRATEGIES OF SALVATION -- Olaf Terpitz. Assimilation or Cultural Encounter? The Picaresque in G. Bogrov's Notes of a Jew and I. Ehrenburg's The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz -- Preliminary Remarks on Reception and Genre -- Literary Genre and Historiographical Concept -- The Picaresque in Grigorii Bogrov's Notes of a Jew -- The Picaresque in Ilya Ehrenburg's The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz -- Conclusion -- Vladimir Khazan. "... We Must Save Our People" (On an Unrealized Project for a Russian-Jewish Weekly in Pre-War Paris) -- PART FIVE. OLD STEREOTYPES REEMERGE IN NEW GUISES -- M.P. Odessky. Anti-Semitism and the Vampire Theme.

Andrei Rogatchevski. The 'Khazar'-'Varangian' Dialogue in Dmitry Bykov's ZhD: Some Psychoanalytical Observations -- Sergei Shargorodsky. The Darkness of Babylon: A Russian-Jewish-Israeli Experience in Visionary Journeys of Mikhail Gendelev -- Name Index.