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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.

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Author:   Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher:   Academic Studies Press
Imprint:   Academic Studies Press
Weight:   0.525kg
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9781618117922

ISBN 10:   1618117920
Pages:   1036
Publication Date:   06 December 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 10 years
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"Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates Note on How to Use This Book General Introduction: The Legacy of Jewish-Russian Literature, by Maxim D. Shrayer Early Voices: 1800s-1850s Editor's Introduction Leiba Nevakhovich (1776-1831) from Lament of the Daughter of Judah (1803) Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889) “The People” (1840) Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896) From An Answer to the Slav (1849; pub. 1911) Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869) From The Penal Recruit (1859)Seething Times: 1860s-1880s Editor's Introduction Lev Levanda (1835-1888) From Seething Times (1860s; pub. 1871-73) Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885) “Childhood Sufferings” from Notes of a Jew (1863; pub. 1871-73) Rakhel Khin (1861-1928) From The Misfit (1881) Semyon Nadson (1862-1887) From “The Woman” (1883)     “I grew up shunning you, O most degraded nation…” (1885)On the Eve: 1890s-1910s Editor's Introduction Ben-Ami (1854–1932) Preface to Collected Stories and Sketches (1898) David Aizman (1869-1922) “The Countrymen” (1902) Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927) From The Jews (1903) Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) “In Memory of Herzl” (1904) Sasha Cherny (1880-1932) “Judeophobes” (1909) S. An-sky (1863-1920) “The Book” (1910) Samuil Marshak (1887-1964) “Palestine” (1916) Sofia Parnok (1885-1933) “My anguish does the Lord not heed…” (1913-22) Hagar” (1913-22) Not for safekeeping for awhile…” (1913-22) Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918) “A Jewish Wedding” (1916) Regimental Inspection” (1917)Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s Editor's Introduction Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989) “Shields (and Candles)” (1922) Lev Lunts (1901-1924) “Native Land” (1922) Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)“Not my mother, but a Tula peasant woman…” (1917; 1922) In Moscow I was born. I never…” (1923) Andrey Sobol (1888-1926) “The Count” (1922-23) Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) “The Teacher's Prophecy Concerning the Destinies of the Tribe of Judah” from The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples (1922) Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) From Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (1923) Matvey Royzman (1896-1973) “Kol Nidrei” (1923) Mark Aldanov (1886-1957) “The Assassination of Uritsky” (1923) Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) “Judaic Chaos” from Noise of Time (1925) One Alexander Herzovich…” (1931) Say, desert geometer, shaper…” (1933) Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942) “Where's Home?” (1925) Dovid Knut (1900-1955) “I, Dovid-Ari Ben Meir…” (1925) A Kishinev Burial” (1929) The Land of Israel” (1938) Isaac Babel (1894-1940) “The Rabbi's Son” (1925) Awakening” (1931) Vera Inber (1890-1972) “The Nightingale and the Rose” (1925) Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969) “Encounter” (1927) Viktor Fink (1888-1973) “The Preachers” and “The New Culture” from Jews on the Land (1929) Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972) “R” (1929) Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934) “Origin”(1930)    From February (1934) Mark Egart (1901-1956) From Scorched Land (1932) Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942) “The Prodigal Son Returns Home” (1930) by Ilf    From The Little Golden Calf (1931) by Ilf and Petrov Raisa Blokh (1899-1943?) “A snatch of speech came floating on the air…” (1932) Remember, father would stand…” (1933)War and Shoah: 1940s Editor's Introduction Boris Yampolsky (1921-1972) “Mr. Dykhes and Others”    from Country Fair (ca. 1940) Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) “To the Jews” (1941) “Six Poems” (The January 1945 Novy mir cycle) Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968) “I Saw It”; “Kerch” (1942) Sofia Sofia Dubnova-Erlikh (1885-1986) Two Wartime Essays: “Shtetl” (1943); Scorched Hearth” (1944) Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) “The Hell of Treblinka” (1944) Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978) “Death Camp” (1945) Yury German (1910-1967) from Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Corps (1949) Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) “In the Lowlands” (1944) Odessa” (1944)    From Doctor Zhivago (1946-[1955]; pub. 1957)The Thaw, 1950s-1960s Editor's Introduction Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) “These Abrám, Isák and Yákov…” (1953; pub. 1989) Of the Jews” (1952-56; pub. 1961) Horses in the Ocean” (1956) Prodigal Son” (1956) Puny Jewish children…” (1957-58; pub. 1989) Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) From Life and Fate (1960; pub. 1980) Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) “Jewish graveyard near Leningrad…” (1958; pub. 1965) I'm not asking death for immortality…” (ca. 1961; pub. 1992) Vladimir Britanishsky (1933-2015) “A German Girl” (1957-58; pub. 1993) Yuly Daniel (1925-1988) From This Is Moscow Speaking (1961) Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962) “Enemies” (1962) Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982) “Girls with golden eyes..."""" (1960; pub. 1990s) You're mistaken…” (1961; pub. 1990s) It's the end of our nation…” (1962; pub. 1990s) My Slavic language is Russian…” (1963; pub. 1990s) I'm Moyshe from Berdichev…” (1963; pub. 1990s) Eve, a civilized Jewess…” (1964; pub. 1990s)Late Soviet Empire and Collapse: 1960s-1990s Editor's Introduction Vassily Aksyonov (1932-2009) “Victory: A Story with Exaggerations” (1965) Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936) “When that teacher in Poland, so as not…” (1966) Letters” (1966) Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999) “In Memory of My Father” (1962; pub. 1999) Psalm 3” (1965-66; pub. 1979) Psalm 132 (133)” (1965-66; pub. 1988) Psalm 136 (137)” (1965-66; pub. 1993) Psalm 150” (1965-66; pub. 1993) A Pole Rode” (1985; pub. 1992) Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003) “Khaim” (1973; pub. 1979) Yuri Karabchievsky (1938-1992) From Life of Aleksandr Zilber (1974-75) Inna Lisnianskaia (1928-2014) “My father, a military doctor…” (1975; pub. 1980) An Incident” (1981; pub. 1983) Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) “Let's cross out the Pale…“ (1970s; pub. 1985) The rabbis came down to the valley…” (before 1977; pub. 1989) Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998) From Heavy Sand (1975-77; pub. 1978) Yuri Trifonov (1925-1981) “A Visit with Marc Chagall” (1980) from The Overturned House Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980) From Only My Heart Was Broken (1980) Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935) “For the Last Time” (1987) Sara Pogreb (b. 1921) “I'm going to see my grandparents. The cart…” (1986) I'm bidding farewell to the slush….” (1989)    Izrail Metter (1909-1996) From Pedigree (1980s) Aleksandr Mezhirov (1923-2009) From Blizzard (1986-2000) Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005) A Journey to Kashgar (1973-1989) Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947) From The Confession of a Jew (1993) Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943) “Genele the Purse Lady” (1993)The Jewish Exodus: 1970s-1990s Editor's Introduction Lev Mak (b. 1937 [1939] “A Farewell to Russia” (1974) August in Odessa” (1974) Boris Khazanov (b. 1928) From The King's Hour (1968-69; pub. 1976; 1980) Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999) “Afánta-Utóma” (“Fantasia-Judaica”) from Glints of the Wave (late 1960s-1970s; pub. 1978) David Markish (b. 1938) “The Appearance of Prophet Elijah, 1714” from The Jesters (1981-82) Michael Kreps (1940-1994) “Cat with a Yellow Star” (1980s) Call of the Ancestors” (1980s) Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936) “Sarah and Rooster” (1988) Ruth Zernova (1919-2004) “All Vows” (1988) David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936) “Chagall's Self-Portrait with Wife” (1975; pub. 1990) My Slavic Soul” (1975; pub. 1990) Villa Borghese” (1987-90) Hände Hoch!” (1999) Marina Temkina (b. 1948) “1995: Happy New Year” (1995) Dina Rubina (b. 1953) From Here Comes the Messiah (1996) Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002) “The Arrest of an Antisemite” (1998) Anna Gorenko (1972-1999) “The Golem” (1997) Translating from the European” (1999)An Outline of Jewish-Russian History by John D. Klier Bibliography of Primary Sources Index of Authors Index of Translators Index of Names, Places and Works About the Editor"

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Maxim D. Shrayer, a bilingual author, scholar and translator, is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian & Eurasian Jewry at Harvard's Davis Center. Born in Moscow in 1967 to a writer's family, Shrayer emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored and edited fifteen books in English and Russian, among them the internationally acclaimed memoirsLeaving Russia: A Jewish StoryandWaiting for America: A Story of Emigration, the story collectionYom Kippur in Amsterdam, and the Holocaust studyI Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, and the travelogueWith or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today's Russia. Shrayer is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit Shrayer's website at www.shrayer.com.

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