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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457008003321

Autore

Murav Harriet <1955->

Titolo

Music from a speeding train [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish literature in post-revolution Russia / / Harriet Murav

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-7904-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

891.709/892400904

Soggetti

Russian literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Yiddish literature - Soviet Union - History and criticism

Yiddish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on Transliteration and Translation""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: From the Revolution Through the Second World War""; ""1. The Stillbirth of Revolution""; ""2. Socialist Construction, the Luftmentsh, and the New Jew""; ""3. Fighting the Great Patriotic War""; ""4. In Mourning: Responding to the Destruction of the Jews""; ""Part II: Postwar Reconstructions""; ""Introduction""; ""5. Yeder zeyger a yortsayt: The Past as Memory in Postwar Literature""; ""6. Jewish Spaces and Retro-Shtetls""; ""7. Translating Empire""; ""8. Afterwards""; ""Notes""

""Works Cited""""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores the Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish-language authors in the same literary universe  - one in which modernism, revolution, and socialist realism join Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity.