Jews In Russian Literature After The October Revolution

Author : Efraim Sicher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521481090

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Jews in Russian Literature After the October Revolution by Efraim Sicher Pdf

This work is an innovative and controversial study of how four famous Jews writing in Russian in the early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled in very different ways to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook, and social or ideological pressures. Efraim Sicher also explores the broader context of the literature and art of the Jewish avant-garde in the years immediately preceding and following the Russian Revolution. By comparing literary texts and the visual arts the author reveals unexpected correspondences in the response to political and cultural change. This study contributes to our knowledge of an important aspect of modern Russian writing and will be of interest to both Jewish scholars and those concerned with Slavonic studies.

Author : Lionel Kochan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004191303

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The Jews in Soviet Russia Since 1917 by Lionel Kochan Pdf

Historical analysis of the position and living conditions of Russian Jews in the USSR since 1917 - covers government policy of discrimination against the jewish minority group, demographic aspects and occupational structure, cultural factors and achievements in literature, legal status, religion, the problem of language, jewish emigration, the role of USSR and Russian foreign policy in Arab country and in Israel, etc. Bibliography after each chapter.

Author : Institute of Jewish Affairs
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press for the Institute of Jewish Affairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035932362

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The Jews in Soviet Russia Since 1917 by Institute of Jewish Affairs Pdf

Author : Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0674035100

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Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution by Kenneth B. Moss Pdf

Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a “Jewish renaissance.” Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism, and culture itself—the pivot point for the encounter between Jews and European modernity over the past century.

Author : Alice S. Nakhimovsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024952775

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Russian-Jewish Literature and Identity by Alice S. Nakhimovsky Pdf

Ch. 1 (pp. 1-44), "Enlightenment, Disappearance, Reemergence", traces the history of Russian Jews after the Revolution, pointing out the Stalinist antisemitic campaign and the reemergence of popular and intellectual antisemitism in the "perestroika" years (e.g. I. Shafarevich). The following chapters, on Russian Jewish writers, deal also with the effect of the Holocaust and Stalin's anti-Jewish purge on the works of Vasilii Grossman and Aleksandr Galich (pseudonym of Aleksandr A. Ginzburg). Mentions expressions of Jewish self-hatred in other writers' works.

Author : Sasha Senderovich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674275751

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How the Soviet Jew Was Made by Sasha Senderovich Pdf

A close reading of postrevolutionary Russian and Yiddish literature and film recasts the Soviet Jew as a novel cultural figure: not just a minority but an ambivalent character navigating between the Jewish past and Bolshevik modernity. The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the Jewish community of the former tsarist empire. The Pale of Settlement on the empire's western borderlands, where Jews had been required to live, was abolished several months before the Bolsheviks came to power. Many Jews quickly exited the shtetls, seeking prospects elsewhere. Some left for bigger cities, others for Europe, America, or Palestine. Thousands tried their luck in the newly established Jewish Autonomous Region in the Far East, where urban merchants would become tillers of the soil. For these Jews, Soviet modernity meant freedom, the possibility of the new, and the pressure to discard old ways of life. This ambivalence was embodied in the Soviet Jew—not just a descriptive demographic term but a novel cultural figure. In insightful readings of Yiddish and Russian literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds characters traversing space and history and carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost Jewish world. There is the Siberian settler of Viktor Fink’s Jews in the Taiga, the folkloric trickster of Isaac Babel, and the fragmented, bickering family of Moyshe Kulbak’s The Zelmenyaners, whose insular lives are disrupted by the march of technological, political, and social change. There is the collector of ethnographic tidbits, the pogrom survivor, the émigré who repatriates to the USSR. Senderovich urges us to see the Soviet Jew anew, as not only a minority but also a particular kind of liminal being. How the Soviet Jew Was Made emerges as a profound meditation on culture and identity in a shifting landscape.

Author : Maxim Gorky,Leonid Andreyev,Fyodor Sologub,A. Yarmolinsky
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1475012519

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The Shield, the Jewish Question in Russia by Maxim Gorky,Leonid Andreyev,Fyodor Sologub,A. Yarmolinsky Pdf

The refusal of the Russian people to be either bribed or deceived into hostility to the Jews is clearly enough demonstrated by the feeling of affection on the part of most intelligent Jews towards the Russian people The only exceptions are those Jews which come from the Polish cities far within the Jewish Pale and do not know the Russian people except by hearsay Unfortunately, this is a considerable portion of the total of the Jews in Russia, and it is from these cities and towns in the heart of the Pale that most of our immigrants come But all the more educated Jews—and a very large part are educated—all those who know Russia either by a travel or through Russian literature and newspapers, feel a deep affection for their country, for in spite of all, Russia belongs to them just as much as it does to other Russians One of the editors of the present volume, Fyodor Sologub, says:"Whenever I met Russian Jews abroad, I always marvelled at the strangely tenacious love for Russia which they preserve They speak of Russia with the same longing and the same tenderness as the Russian emigrants; they are equally eager to return and equally saddened, if the return is impossible Wherefore should they love Russia, who is so harsh and inhospitable toward them?"

Author : Brendan McGeever
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107195998

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The Bolshevik Response to Antisemitism in the Russian Revolution by Brendan McGeever Pdf

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

Author : Benjamin Pinkus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0521389267

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The Jews of the Soviet Union by Benjamin Pinkus Pdf

This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus examines not only the legal-political status of the Jews, and their reciprocal relationship with the Soviet majority, but also the impact of internal economic, demographic and social processes upon the religious, educational and cultural life of Soviet Jewry. A second layer of analysis describes in depth the complex linkages between the Jews of the Soviet Union, the Jews in other diasporas and the state of Israel itself. The Jews of the Soviet Union marks a major contribution to the historiography and social analysis of its subject and provides a worthy companion to Professor Pinkus's acclaimed documentary study The Soviet Union and the Jews 1948-1967.

Author : Harold Shukman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064914511

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War Or Revolution by Harold Shukman Pdf

They arrived in Archangel in the autumn of 1917 together with the Arctic winter and the chaos of the revolution, which soon descended into bloody civil war. How they fared and how they struggled to return to Britain is the story of War or Revolution."--Jacket.

Author : Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317476962

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An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature by Maxim D. Shrayer Pdf

This definitive anthology gathers stories, essays, memoirs, excerpts from novels, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers of the past two centuries who worked in the Russian language. It features writers of the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods, both in Russia and in the great emigrations, representing styles and artistic movements from Romantic to Postmodern. The authors include figures who are not widely known today, as well as writers of world renown. Most of the works appear here for the first time in English or in new translations. The editor of the anthology, Maxim D. Shrayer of Boston College, is a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature. The selections were chosen not simply on the basis of the author's background, but because each work illuminates questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is profiled in an essay describing the personal, cultural, and historical circumstances in which the writer worked, and individual works or groups of works are headnoted to provide further context. The anthology not only showcases a wide selection of individual works but also offers an encyclopedic history of Jewish-Russian culture. This handsome two-volume set is organized chronologically. The first volume spans the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century, and includes the editor's extensive introduction to the Jewish-Russian literary canon. The second volume covers the period from the death of Stalin to the present, and each volume includes a corresponding survey of Jewish-Russian history by John D. Klier of University College, London, as well as detailed bibliographies of historical and literary sources.

Author : Yaacov Ro'i
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135205102

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Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union by Yaacov Ro'i Pdf

The main focus of this book is Jewish life under the Soviet regime. The themes of the book include: the attitude of the government to Jews, the fate of the Jewish religion and life in Post-World War II Russia. The volume also contains an assessment of the prospects for future emigration.

Author : Stefani Hoffman,Ezra Mendelsohn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812240641

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The Revolution of 1905 and Russia's Jews by Stefani Hoffman,Ezra Mendelsohn Pdf

In this multidisciplinary volume, leading historians provide new understanding of a time that sent shockwaves through Jewish communities in and beyond the Russian Empire and transformed the way Jews thought about the politics of ethnic and national identity.

Author : Harriet Murav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804774437

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Music from a Speeding Train by Harriet Murav Pdf

Music from a Speeding Train challenges the view that there was no Jewish culture in the Soviet Union by exploring over one hundred Russian and Yiddish works from the 1920s to the turn of the 21st century.

Author : Maxim Shrayer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742507807

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Russian Poet/Soviet Jew by Maxim Shrayer Pdf

Based in part on archival materials, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew examines the short and brilliant career of Eduard Bagritskii (1895-1934), a major Russian poet of Jewish origin. Shrayer provides a short biography, an examination of the problems of Jewish identity and Jewish self-hatred, and interviews with contemporary leaders of Russian ultra-nationalism to explore Bagritskii's Russian/Jewish dual identity. The book also includes the first English-language translations of Bagritskii's major works, along with rare archival photographs documenting the trajectory of his life and career.