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Edited by Maxim D. Shrayer, a leading specialist in Russia's Jewish culture, this definitive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people's history. A living record of the rich and vibrant legacy of Russia's Jews, this reader-friendly and comprehensive anthology features original English translations. In its selection and presentation, the anthology tilts in favor of human interest and readability. It is organized both chronologically and topically (e.g. "Seething Times: 1860s-1880s"; "Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s"; "Late Soviet Empire and Collapse: 1960s-1990s"). A comprehensive headnote introduces each section. Individual selections have short essays containing information about the authors and the works that are relevant to the topic. The editor's opening essay introduces the topic and relevant contexts at the beginning of the volume; the overview by the leading historian of Russian Jewry John D. Klier appears the end of the volume. Over 500,000 Russian-speaking Jews presently live in America and about 1 million in Israel, while only about 170,000 Jews remain in Russia. The great outflux of Jews from the former USSR and the post-Soviet states has changed the cultural habitat of world Jewry. A formidable force and a new Jewish Diaspora, Russian Jews are transforming the texture of daily life in the US and Canada, and Israel. A living memory, a space of survival and a record of success, Voice of Jewish-Russian Literature ensures the preservation and accessibility of the rich legacy of Russian-speaking Jews.
Anti-Semitism. --- Diaspora. --- Jews of Russia. --- Russia and the former USSR. --- anthology. --- exile. --- immigrants. --- modern Jewish literature. --- translation. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union. --- Russian literature --- Jews --- Jewish authors
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"No longer at home in Russia, but not quite assimilated into the American mainstream, the daily lives of Russian immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation. Simon Reznikov, the Boston-based immigrant protagonist of Maxim D. Shrayer's A Russian Immigrant, is restless. Unresolved feelings about his Jewish (and American) present and his Russian (and Soviet) past prevent Reznikov from easily putting down roots in his new country. A visit to a decaying summer resort in the Catskills, now populated by Jewish ghosts of Soviet history, which include a famous émigré writer, reveals to Reznikov that he, too, is a prisoner of his past. An expedition to Prague in search of clues for an elusive Jewish writer's biography exposes Reznikov's own inability to move on. A chance reunion with a former Russian lover, now also an immigrant living in an affluent part of Connecticut, unearths memories of Reznikov's last Soviet summer while reanimating many contradictors of a mixed, Jewish-Russian marriage. Told both linearly and non-linearly, with elements of suspense, mystery and crime, these three interconnected novellas gradually reveal many layers of Simon Reznikov's Russian, Jewish, and Soviet past. Vectors of love and desire, nostalgia and amnesia, violence and forgiveness, politics and aesthetics guide Shrayer's immigrant characters while also disorienting them in their new American lives. Set in Providence, New Haven and Boston, but also in places of the main character's pilgrimages such as Estonia and Bohemia, Shrayer's book weaves together a literary manifesto of Russian Jews in America"--
Immigrants --- Jews, Russian --- Russian Jews --- Anti-Semitism. --- Diaspora. --- Jewish-American literature. --- Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe. --- Russia and the former USSR. --- exile. --- fiction. --- immigrants. --- literary fiction. --- modern Jewish literature. --- modern fiction.
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Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other"--yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written in two decentered languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a bold new model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically, and less in danger of universalizing the experience of minority writers. Kronfeld examines the interpenetrations of modernist groupings through examples of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. Her discussions of Amichai, Fogel, Raab, Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutskever will be welcomed by students of modernism in general and Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in particular.
Hebrew poetry, Modern --- Yiddish poetry --- Marginality, Social, in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Yiddish literature --- allusion. --- contraversions critical studies in jewish literature culture and society. --- david fogel. --- deleuze. --- diaspora. --- diversity. --- guattari. --- hebrew culture. --- hebrew literary history. --- historical studies. --- hofshteyn. --- imagist. --- jews. --- judaism. --- literary criticism. --- literary historiography. --- literary trend. --- markish. --- modern jewish literature. --- modernism. --- modernist hebrew poetry. --- modernity. --- moyshe leyb halpern. --- poems. --- poetry. --- religion. --- religious literature. --- stylistic. --- yehuda amichai. --- yiddish literary history.
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Mit dem dritten Band der Schriftenreihe Jiddistik: Edition & Forschung liegt der vollständige Erzählungszyklus Eisenbahngeschichten von Scholem Alejchem (1859-1916) nun erstmals zweisprachig, jiddisch und deutsch, vor. In diesem Werk begegnen wir einem der drei Klassiker der jiddischen Literatur in der Gattung, in der er eine besondere Meisterschaft erlangt hatte: der Kurzgeschichte. Seine prägnante Schilderung von Menschentypen und Alltagssituationen in ausdrucksstarken Monologen haben ihn über die jiddische Literatur hinaus berühmt gemacht. Als Nachwort zur vorliegenden Ausgabe dient Dan Mirons eindrücklicher Essay Reise ins Zwielicht, der eine ausführliche Entstehungsgeschichte bietet und eine multifokale Interpretation des Werks leistet. Die Reihe Jiddistik: Edition & Forschung wird von Marion Aptroot, Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka und Simon Neuberg herausgegeben.
Railroads --- History. --- Yiddish Studies, modern jewish literature, Ajsnban-geschichtess, Schriften eines Handelsreisenden, Sippūrey rakkevet, Dan Miron, The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination, Konkurrenten, Der glücklichste Mensch in ganz Kodno, Bahnhof Baranowitsch, Wirklich genommen!, Der Mann aus Buenos Aires, Unser »Langweiler«, Das Wunder von Hoschana Rabba, Eine Hochzeit ohne Musikanten, Der Taless-Kotn, Keine Lust auf ein Spielchen ›Sechsundsechzig‹ ?, Aufs Gymnasium!, Man soll nie zu gütig sein!, Die Einberufung, Abgebrannt!, Vom Pech verfolgt!, Wenn einen das Unglück trifft!, Der zehnte Mann, »Ein tolles Stückchen, sagt, was Ihr wollt…«, Fahrt lieber dritter Klasse!, Kssowim fun a komi-wojasher.
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