- Description
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world"--
- Uniform Title
- How the Soviet Jew was made (Online)
- Alternative Title
- How the Soviet Jew was made (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-328) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Dispersion of the Pale -- Haunted by pogroms: David Bergelson's Judgment -- Salvaged fragments: Moyshe Kulbak's The Zelmenyaners -- The edge of the world: narratives of non-arrival in Birobidzhan -- Back in the USSR: the Wandering Jew on the Soviet screen -- The Soviet Jew as a trickster: Isaac Babel's "Hershele cycle" -- Epilogue: Returns to the shtetl.
- LCCN
- 2021048963
- OCLC
- ssj0002611932
- Author
Senderovich, Sasha.
- Title
How the Soviet Jew was made [electronic resource] / Sasha Senderovich.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-328) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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