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Rewriting Russia
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ISBN: 0295801476 9780295801476 9780295991320 0295991321 9780295991337 029599133X Year: 2011 Publisher: Seattle London University of Washington Press

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Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education and acculturation, and a battleground for ideologies and artistic credos. Gordin, like his audience, was a Russian émigré. His most successful and scandalous dramas--The Jewish King Lear, The Kreutzer Sonata, and Khasye the Orphan--were based on works by Lev Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, and reflected a profoundly Jewish means of using literature to salvage a lost land.Gordin's life and his plays held out the tantalizing possibility that by changing the story of one's past, one could write one's own future. Through a detailed examination of Gordin's career in Russia, Barbara Henry dismantles the fictive radical background he invented for himself. In doing so, she illuminates the continuities among his Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays.

Finding the Jewish Shakespeare
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ISBN: 0815651759 9780815651758 9780815608844 0815608845 9780815609964 0815609965 Year: 2007 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press

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An inside look at the life and times of a fabled cultural figure in Yiddish theater. This biography sets out to explore the true character and creative achievements of Jacob Gordin, playwright and icon of the Yiddish stage.

Totalitarian Democracy and After.
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ISBN: 0714683043 1315040212 1135317666 9781135317669 9781135317737 1135317739 9781315040219 9780714651842 9780714683041 0714651842 9781135317805 Year: 2013 Publisher: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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This volume, first published in 1984, contains the principal papers from a distinguished colloquium held in 1982. Its avowed purpose is to investigate further the notion of ""totalitarian democracy"" and to look at its repercussions in the contemporary world.


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Kurt Vonnegut remembered
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ISBN: 9780817392246 0817392246 9780817320119 0817320113 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tuscaloosa


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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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ISBN: 0446689238 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Warner paperback library

The Vonnegut effect
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ISBN: 1280593059 9786613622884 1611171148 9781611171143 1611170079 9781611170078 1570035202 9781280593055 Year: 2010 Publisher: Columbia, S.C. University of South Carolina Press

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Considering both Vonnegut's methods and the cultural needs they have served, Klinkowitz explains how those works came to be written and concludes with an assessment of the author's place in American fiction.

Vonnegut : a preface to his novels
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ISBN: 0804691673 9780804691673 Year: 1977 Publisher: Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press,


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Critical companion to Kurt Vonnegut : a literary reference to his life and work
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ISBN: 9780816065981 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Facts on File


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Solitude du penseur de fond
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ISBN: 2903702322 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris : Critérion,

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