ABSTRACT Scholars have long posited a connection between the emergence of Jewish historical consciousness and the “new Jewish politics” of the period 1881–1917. They have largely neglected, however, the many popular Yiddish-language histories that appeared during this time. These popular histories – nearly all of them printed in Warsaw and dedicated to the topic of “world history” – were sold in the first decade of the twentieth century by newly established Yiddish publishing houses and were heavily advertised in the burgeoning Yiddish daily press. I argue that the narratives of cultural work presented in this genre of history provided a conceptual infrastructure for the eventual articulation of a Jewish mass politics in the post-1905 era. Moving beyond the textual analysis of canonical (Russian and Hebrew-language) historical literature reveals the discourses and practices that enabled Yiddish-speakers in the rapidly urbanizing Pale to imagine the Jewish nation as a coherent historical agent.

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意第绪语世界历史和俄罗斯帝国晚期犹太民族主义政治的出现

摘要 长期以来，学者们一直认为犹太历史意识的出现与 1881 年至 1917 年期间的“新犹太政治”之间存在联系。然而，他们在很大程度上忽略了这一时期出现的许多流行的意第绪语历史。这些流行的历史——几乎全部在华沙印刷并致力于“世界历史”的主题——在 20 世纪的第一个十年由新成立的意第绪语出版社出售，并在新兴的意第绪语日报上大肆宣传。我认为，在这种历史类型中呈现的文化作品叙事为 1905 年后时代犹太群众政治的最终表达提供了概念基础。