“End Times” in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions

Abstract

The present volume of the annual edition Slavic & Jewish Cultures: Dialogue, Similarities, Differences entitled “End Times” in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions includes materials from the international conference of the same name, which took place in Moscow on December 7–9, 2022. The volume presents 13 articles by scholars from Russia and Israel who devoted their researches to studying book and folk eschatology, apocalyptic plots and images reflected in written and oral monuments of different historical periods, in visual arts, philosophical and ideological constructs, and collective consciousness. Supported by a wide range of diverse sources, the authors explore the mechanisms of adaptation of eschatological ideas in Jewish and Christian traditions, the transformation of individual images associated with the Apocalypse into cultural symbols, the development and transformation of the idea of the “End times” in contemporary culture largely affected by globalization processes.