Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet

Akim Volynsky: A Hidden Russian-Jewish Prophet
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Contents
1 Volynsky in Retrospect
	Volynsky Known and Unknown
	Jewish Themes
	A Russian-Jewish Philosopher?
	Volynsky in Russian Literary History
2 A Jewish Journalist
	Origins
	A Jewish Polemicist
	An Idealist
	A Spinozist
	“Zion and Calvary”
	“Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”
	Volynsky as a “Spinoza”
3 Toward Tolstoy
	Above Denominations
	Tolstoy as a Philosopher
	First Jewish-Christian Typologies
	Getting to Yasnaya Polyana
	A Talk about Solov’ev
	Later Revaluations of Tolstoy
	Brother Akim
	A Forerunner
4 Russian Critics
	Causes of Decline
	Belinsky
	Dobroliubov
	Chernyshevsky
	Pisarev
	Dostoevsky as a Critic
5 Against Decadence
	An Anti-Nietzschean
	The Marxist Episode
	“An underground mine”
	Lou Salome
	A Tramp Who was a Decadent
	Decline and Demise
6 Dostoevsky
	The Dostoevsky Controversy
	A Talk about Inner Truth
	Language of Flesh and Metaphysics of Soul
	“Dostoevsky under the sign of Apollo”
	Modern Estimations
	A Religious Philosopher
7 Theater
	Moving to Khodotov
	Volynsky and Gorky
	At Komissarzhevskaya’s
	A Shift to the Left
	At Apollon
	Dymov and Asch on Volynsky
	A Guru of Russian Ballet
8 The Jewish Side of the Argument
	A Humanist
	Vol’fila
	The Four Gospels
	The Jewish Worldview
	“Habima”
	The Jewish Theater. Article 1
	The Third Testament of Akim Volynsky
	Stuck with His Head in the Firmament
	Ariosophy Inside Out
	Volynsky’s Apocalypse
9 Rembrandt
	The Rembrandt Cult and Argument
	Volynsky’s Rembrandt
	Was Rembrandt a Jew?
	Rosicrucianism
	Habima
	The New People and the Cult of Thought
Index