TY - BOOK ID - 3046917 TI - Jews in Russian literature after the October Revolution : writers and artists between hope and apostasy AU - Sicher, Efraim AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 1995 VL - *19 SN - 0521481090 PB - Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge university press DB - UniCat KW - Russian literature KW - Littérature russe KW - Jewish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Auteurs juifs KW - Histoire et critique KW - Erenburg, Il'ia, KW - Babel', I. KW - Mandel'shtam, Osip, KW - Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, KW - Soviet Union KW - URSS KW - History KW - Literature and the revolution KW - Histoire KW - Littérature et révolution KW - Jews in literature. KW - Jews KW - Judaism and literature KW - Intellectual life. KW - History and criticism. KW - Babelʹ, I. KW - Mandelʹshtam, Osip, KW - Ėrenburg, Ilʹi͡a, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Literature and the revolution. KW - Littérature russe KW - Ėrenburg, Ilʹi͡a, KW - Littérature et révolution KW - Ėrenburg, Ilʹi︠a︡, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3046917 AB - 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. ER -