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DIVExplores the relationship between law, literature, and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia /div...
Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering
This volume discusses the participation of Jews as soldiers, journalists, and propagandists in combating the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War, as ...
Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia
Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system....
The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine
An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and R...
Dostoevsky’s Novels and the Poetics of Cultural Critique
This book examines the ways in which Dostoevsky's adoption and reinvention of the medieval Russian holy fool - in Russian Orthodoxy, a person who feig...
The Jew in Imperial Russia and the Case of Avraam Uri Kovner
This book offers the first full-length English-language biography of Avraam Uri Kovner, a fascinating and peculiar Russian-Jewish writer and criminal ...
Untimeliness and Futurity
David Bergelson (1884–1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige a...