In 'Russian Idea-Jewish Presence,' Brian Horowitz follows the career tracks of Jewish intellectuals who, having fallen in love with Russian culture, were unceremoniously repulsed. Horowitz relays the paradoxes of a synthetic Jewish and Russian self-consciousness in order to correct critics who have always considered Russians and Jews as polar opposites, enemies, and incompatible.In fact, the best Russian Jewish intellectuals-Semyon Dubnov, Maxim Vinaver,Mikhail Gershenzon, and a number of Zionist writers and thinkers-were actually inspired by Russian culture and attempted to develop a 'sui generis' Jewish creativity in three languages on Russian soil.