«Jewish easternism» of Ya.A. Bromberg

Abstract

The Eurasian movement included a large number of intellectuals representatives of the Russian emigration. Not all of them shared the ideology of the new movement, some were in its ranks accidentally and later disavowed Eurasianism. A.V. Kartashev, S.L. Frank, P.M. Bitsilli had a status of invited specialists and could not be attributed to Eurasianism. The issue about the membership of the movement and the legitimacy of attributing the texts of a particular author to the Eurasian ones is relevant. We deal with the works of Ya.A. Bromberg, devoted to the Jewish question. He said that the impetus for writing them was the articles by L.P. Karsavin and A.Z. Steinberg published in the weekly magazine Versty. Ya.A. Brombergs methodology was completely based on the policy that appeared in previous works of Eurasian authors, especially P.N. Savitskiy, N.S. Trubetzkoy and L.P. Karsavin. He considered that the position of Jewry at the junction of Poland and Russia obliged to understand the religious, cultural and political position to the East and West. The main meaning of the works by Ya.A. Bromberg was the critics of Western movements in the area of Eastern Jewry and acceptance of its Eurasian future as the only possible one.