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Title

History thieves / Zinovy Zinik.

Author

Zinik, Zinoviĭ.

Publication

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2010.

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Description

113 p. : ill.; 19 cm.

Summary

Coming from a thoroughly secular Soviet background, the Russian-British novelist Zinovy Zinik became aware for the first time of his "Jewishness" when he emigrated to Israel in the 1970s. In this stylistically innovative autobiographical tale, Zinik describes how an unheimliche experience in Berlin -- of seeing for real the house he dreamed about many years before in London -- led him to investigate the chequered and enigmatic past of his Russian born grandfather who, while ostensibly practising as a doctor in Lithuania, was building the Soviet empire from which Zinik tried to escape 50 years later. In the manner of the classic detective story, Ainik's meditation on "assumeed identity" and "plagiarized past" culminates in the notion of recognition as a redeeming factor, suggesting that it is central not only to the twentieth century Jewish experience or even the wider world of emigres, exile and migrants of all kinds, but to the human condition itself." -- Inside front cover.

Series Statement

Manifestos for the 21st century

Uniform Title

Manifestos for the 21st century.

Subject

• Zinik, Zinoviĭ > Childhood and youth
• Jews, Russian > Great Britain > Biography
• Jewish authors > Great Britain > Biography
• Grandfathers > Influence > Biography
• Immigrants' writings, English

Note

• "The present book had its genesis in a speech delivered by the author at the Eurozine 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals, Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009, and published at www.eurozine.com" --P. 113.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Dwarf Long Nose -- By the Rivers of Babylon -- Among the Believers -- An Ex-isle's Dream -- The Dream as Shadow -- The Grandparents" Larder -- Across the River into the Past -- Beyond the Pale -- Trophies of the Communal Past -- The Act of Recognition

ISBN

• 9781906497781
• 1906497788

OCLC

587209642

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library