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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harriet Murav |
| ISBN: | 9780804774437 0804774439 |
| OCLC Number: | 708648478 |
| Description: | xi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The stillbirth of revolution -- Socialist construction, the Luftmentsh, and the new Jew -- Fighting the great patriotic war -- In mourning : responding to the destruction of the Jews -- Yeder zeyger a yortsayt : the past as memory in postwar literature -- Jewish spaces and retro-shtetls -- Translating empire -- Afterwards. |
| Series Title: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. |
| Responsibility: | Harriet Murav. |
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"By carefully reading something close to the entirety of the Russian-Jewish and Yiddish literature published in the last century and considering it on its own terms, Murav has changed the ways in which literary scholars and historians will think about the Soviet Jewish experience." -- Gabriella Safran "This pioneering book offers an illuminating interpretation of Soviet Jewish culture, treating this complex phenomenon from a refreshingly new literary perspective. It is the first literary study to cover the entire Soviet period and deal equally expertly with Yiddish and Russian texts." -- Mikhail Krutikov "I recommend this book not only to all readers of Jewish, Yiddish, and Russian-Jewish literature, but to all scholars and students of Soviet and post-Soviet literature, whether written by Jews or not. Murav convinces us solidly that Jewish culture was firmly integrated into Soviet culture throughout and beyond the latter's historical purview, and we must look at both together in order to fully understand either." -- Judith Deutsch Kornblatt "Murav has written an unusually rich and engaging book, which will be a must for experts on twentieth-century literatures-Jewish, Soviet, and European. Partially, its success is secured by the extraordinary quality of the forgotten texts that she presents to the reader in her lucid, though necessarily abridged, renderings . . . Murav's rendering of this vanished melody [from a speeding train] is remarkably clear." -- Alexander Etkind "This cogent book demonstrates viability and resilience of Jewish literature in Russia from the late 19th century to the current day. This is a truly admirable book, marked by keen understanding, insight, and particular sympathy, if not love, for the Jewish people. . . Highly recommended." -- V. D. Barooshian Read more...
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- Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
- Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Russian literature.
- Russian literature -- Jewish authors.
- Yiddish literature.
- Soviet Union.
- Literatur.
- Russisch.
- Jiddisch.
- Schriftsteller.
- Juden.
- Russland.
- Sowjetunion.
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