The Burning Bush

Vladimir Solovyov

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Vladimir Solovyov, one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest Christian philosophers, was renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism presents an annotated translation of Solovyov's complete oeuvre on the Jewish question, elucidating his terminology and identifying his references to persons, places, and texts, especially from biblical and rabbinic writings. Many texts are provided in English translation by Gregory Yuri Glazov for the first time, including Solovyov's obituary for Joseph Rabinovitch, a pioneer of modern Messianic Judaism, and his letter in the London Times of 1890 advocating for greater Jewish civil rights in Russia, printed alongside a similar petition by Cardinal Manning. Glazov's introduction presents a summary of Solovyov's life, explains how the texts in this collection were chosen, and provides a survey of Russian Jewish history to help the reader understand the context and evaluate the significance of Solovyov's work. In his extensive commentary in Part II, which draws on key memoirs from family and friends, Glazov paints a rich portrait of Solovyov's encounters with Jews and Judaism and of the religious-philosophical ideas that he both brought to and derived from those encounters. The Burning Bush explains why Jews posthumously accorded Solovyov the accolade of a "righteous gentile," and why his ecumenical hopes and struggles to reconcile Judaism and Christianity and persuade secular authorities to respect conscience and religious freedom still bear prophetic vitality.

Sujets

• Jewish Studies
• HISTORY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Torá
• Abrahamic religions
• Solovyov
• List of Russian philosophers
• General officer
• Russia
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Religion
• General
• Soloviov
• Torah
• Russie

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• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 21 août 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268093044
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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THE BURNING BUSH
THE BURNING BUSH
W RITINGS ON J EWS AND J UDAISM
VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV
Edited, translated, and with commentary by Gregory Yuri Glazov

University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
www.undpress.nd.edu
Copyright 2016 by University of Notre Dame
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Published in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich, 1853-1900, author. | Glazov, Gregory Yuri, translator, editor, writer of added commentary.
Title: The burning bush : writings on Jews and Judaism / Vladimir Solovyov ; edited, translated, and with commentary by Gregory Yuri Glazov.
Description: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007508 | ISBN 9780268029890 (hardcover) | ISBN 026802989X (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Judaism-Philosophy. | Philosophy, Russian-19th century.
Classification: LCC B4263 .B8715 2016 | DDC 296-dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016007508
ISBN 9780268093044
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To the Sophias of my life: my wife, Regina, sister, Elena, and mother, Marina
CONTENTS
Selected Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
PART I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Solovyov and the Origins of This Work
CHAPTER 2 Texts, Annotations, Key Terms, and Translation
CHAPTER 3 The Life and Thought of Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov (1989) by Fr. Alexander Men
CHAPTER 4 Jewish History in Russia up to the End of the Nineteenth Century
Notes to Part I
PART II COMMENTARY AND PORTRAIT OF SOLOVYOV S ENCOUNTERS WITH JEWS AND JUDAISM
CHAPTER 1 Solovyov s Writings on Judaism in Light of His Notes, Letters, and Other Testimonies
CHAPTER 2 Solovyov s Unique Respect for Judaism and His Philosophy of History
CHAPTER 3 Judaism and Christ: The Testimony of Family and Friends
CHAPTER 4 Judaism, Christ, and Conscience: The Testimony of Colleagues
CHAPTER 5 1875-1877: Judaism and Sophia in Solovyov s Journey with the Magi
CHAPTER 6 1878-1881: Lectures on Godmanhood and A Critique of Abstract Principles
CHAPTER 7 1878-1881: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Getz
CHAPTER 8 1881-1883: The Break with the Slavophiles and Critique of Dostoevsky
CHAPTER 9 1884: Jewry and the Christian Question
CHAPTER 10 1885-1886: Joseph Rabinovich and The Talmud
CHAPTER 11 1887-1890: Getz s Journal and the Gestation of the Protest
CHAPTER 12 1890: Tolstoy, Ezekiel 3:18 and 33:8, and the Launch of the Protest
CHAPTER 13 1891: The Foreword to Getz s The Floor to the Accused
CHAPTER 14 1891: The Central Committee for the Organization of Jewish Emigration, Diminsky, Bakst, and the Encyclopedic Dictionary
CHAPTER 15 October 1891: The Lecture The Fall of the Medieval Worldview
CHAPTER 16 1892-1894: Final Correspondence with Tolstoy
CHAPTER 17 1894-1896: Gintsburg, Arseniev, Leskov, and the Articles on the Kabbalah
CHAPTER 18 1898-1899: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and The Tale of the Antichrist
CHAPTER 19 1899-1900: The Obituary of Joseph Rabinovich and The Tale
CHAPTER 20 July 1900: Last Days and Burial
Notes to Part II
PART III PRIMARY TEXTS
CHAPTER 1 Jewry and the Christian Question (1884)
CHAPTER 2 The Israel of the New Covenant (1885)
CHAPTER 3 The Talmud and Recent Polemical Literature about It in Austria and Germany (1886)
CHAPTER 4 The Jews(,) Their Religious and Moral Teachings(.) The Study of S. Y. Diminsky (1891)
CHAPTER 5 When Lived the Hebrew Prophets? Review of Ernest Havet s La modernit des proph tes (1896)
CHAPTER 6 The Kabbalah, from the Encyclopedic Dictionary (1896)
CHAPTER 7 Foreword to Kabbalah: The Mystical Philosophy of the Jews, by David Gintsburg (1896)
CHAPTER 8 Obituary of Joseph Davidovich Rabinovich 5 May 1899
CHAPTER 9 Letters to Faivel Meir Bentsilovich Getz
CHAPTER 10 The Sins of Russia (1887)
CHAPTER 11 Correspondence with Tolstoy
CHAPTER 12 The Protest Letter, London Times (December 10, 1890)
CHAPTER 13 Solovyov s Protest Letter in the Memoirs of Korolenko (1909)
CHAPTER 14 Letter to Konstantin Konstantinovich Arseniev
CHAPTER 15 Letters to Baron David Goratsievich Gintsburg
CHAPTER 16 Letters to Nikolai Yakovlevich Grot
CHAPTER 17 Letters to Moskovskie vedomosti (October 1891)
CHAPTER 18 Six Poems
CHAPTER 19 Appendix: The Protest Letter of Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, London Times (December 10, 1890)
Notes to Part III
Bibliography
General Index
Biblical, Christian Magisterial, and Rabbinic Index
SELECTED ABBREVIATIONS
S OLOVYOV S W ORKS
SSVSS
Sobranie sochinenij Vladimira Sergeevicha Solovyova = Collected Works of Vladimir Sergeevich Solovyov . The superscript denotes the edition by its number of volumes. For further details, see bibliography.
Letters
The Letters of Vladimir Solovyov . For further details, see bibliography.
T HE B IBLE
Unless specified, biblical texts are usually cited from the RSV text.
M.T.
Masoretic Text
OL
Old Latin Text
RST
Russian Synodal Translation (1876)
Slav.
Slavonic: Russian Church Bible text frequently cited by Solovyov (probably a reprint of the second, 1757, edition of the Elizabeth Bible)
Syr
Peshita Version
V
Vulgate Version
R ABBINIC W ORKS
Mishnaic tractate titles are preceded by m. The initial b. or no initial indicates tractates of the Babylonian and the initial j., the Jerusalem Talmud. All translations of the Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash, unless stated otherwise, are taken from the Soncino Talmud and Midrash via Kantrowitz s Judaic Classics CD-ROM collection.
T RANSLITERATION
Russian is romanized following the GOST 2002 (B) system; however, cz following this system is usually rendered ts , and e is rendered either as e or as , while in names, ya is frequently rendered ia and the terminations ej, ij, oj as ei, y, oy , respectively. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian .
E MPHASES AND I NTERPOLATIONS
All emphases in citations of Solovyov s works are in the original source, unless indicated otherwise. Interpolations in translated material are denoted by square brackets.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My interest in Solovyov and his Jewish oeuvre was sparked by my father, Yuri Glazov, who inherited it from our godfather, Alexander Men , who was murdered in 1990, shortly after confiding to my mother, Marina Glazov, that he was receiving death threats. The interest was inflamed by a lecture on Solovyov by Pietro Modesto. I perceived wisdom and truth in Modesto s articulations of Solovyov s thought and became eager to study it. This study was energized by Jonathan Sutton when he introduced me to colleagues who were interested in Solovyov at conferences he organized in Leeds and Cambridge on Russian religious philosophy and the issues of civil rights in Russia. At that point, reading Solovyov s Jewish writings, I began translating excerpts for my classes on the Old Testament at Blackfriars in Oxford. Two old friends of the family, Natalya Trauberg and her daughter, Marija Chepaityte, visited me at the time, and we spoke of Solovyov. Marija followed up on these conversations by sending me Sergei Solovyov s biography of his uncle and the volume of memoirs edited by Boris Valentinovich Averin, both of which figure prominently in this study. Subsequently, my friend Stratford Caldecott, codirector with his wife, Leonie, of the Centre for Faith and Culture, introduced me to Paul Valliere and, later, Michael Waldstein. Michael commissioned me to translate the loci classici of Solovyov s Jewish writings and then invited me to present a weeklong seminar on these texts (the first five works in Part III ) at the International Theological Institute in Gaming. Thus the translation and commentary were begun. My mother, Marina Glazov, gave this study great impetus; while visiting me in the United Kingdom on her way to and from Russia, she helped me prepare a translation of Jewry and the Christian Question, brought from Russia anthologies of Solovyov s writings on Judaism and the books by Getz, and then, at a reunion at the home of my sister Elena and her husband, Kevin Corrigan, again helped me prepare a translation of Solovyov s Talmud and Life of Muhammad (the latter is not part of this project). Once described by Rachel Polonsky as a walking encyclopedia, my mother remained always at hand with advice on biographical, topographical, literary, and translational matters, and helped me correct the proofs. My sister Elena brought from Russia the centenary two-volume work edited by Yevgeniya V. Borisova and Anna P. Kozyreva and in the stages of responding to the readers reviews helped bring my translation of Solovyov s poetry closer to the original. I also owe Elena and Kevin thanks for connecting me with Russian and Ukrainian religious thinkers and figures for whom the issues raised by this book are a matter of lifelong importance. Of these individuals, I became most engaged with Yakov Krotov, not only via his electronic archive, but also through his generous and informed responses to my questions about Solovyov that provided important insights pe