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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820398803321

Autore

Lapidus Rina

Titolo

Jewish women writers in the Soviet Union / / Rina Lapidus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

ISBN

9780208805060

1-283-46244-3

9786613462442

0-203-80506-2

1-136-64547-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe

Disciplina

891.709/9287089924

Soggetti

Jewish women - Soviet Union - Intellectual life

Judaism and literature - Soviet Union

Russian literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Russian literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Russian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

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

Cover; Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction : Jewish women writers in the Soviet Union and the present study; 1. Literature and the political regime in Russia; 2. Alexandra Brushtein (1884-1968): The tears behind the smiles; 3. Elizaveta Polonskaia (1890-1969): A concealed storm of emotion; 4. Raisa Bloch (1899-1943): A genius unaware of her talent; 5. Hanna Levina (1900-1969): A Jewish communist fighter; 6. Ol'ga Ziv (1904-1963): An unknown Jewish author; 7. Yulia Neiman (1907-1994): Brilliant philosopher and poetess

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of each author's literary output, and an assessment of each author's often conflicted view of her ""feminine self"" and of her



""Jewish self"". At a time when the large Jewish population which lived within the Soviet Union was threatened under Stalin's prosecutions the book provides highly-informative insi