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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957846003321

Autore

Zipperstein Steven J (1950- ).

Titolo

Imagining Russian Jewry : Memory, History, Identity / / Steven J. Zipperstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : University of Washington Press, , [2015]

©[2015]

ISBN

9780295802312

0295802316

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Collana

The Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies

Disciplina

947.004924

Soggetti

Żydzi - Ukraina - opinia publiczna

Żydzi - Ukraina - Odessa - historia

Holocaust - historiografia

Żydzi - Rosja - opinia publiczna

Żydzi - Rosja - historia

Żydzi - Rosja - historiografia

Żydzi - tożsamość - Rosja - historia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rok wydania według strony wydawcy: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/ZIPIMC.html.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Shtetls There and Here: Imagining Russia in America; 2. Reinventing Heders; 3. Remapping Odessa; 4. On the Holocaust in the Writing of the East European Jewish Past; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This subtle, unusual book explores the many, often overlapping ways in which the Russian Jewish past has been remembered in history, in literature, and in popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of sources-including novels, plays, and archival material-Imagining Russian Jewry is a reflection on reading, collective memory, and the often uneasy, and also uncomfortably intimate, relationships that exist between seemingly incompatible ways of seeing the past. The book also explores what it means to produce scholarship on topics that are deeply personal: its anxieties, its evasions, and its pleasures.



Zipperstein, a leading expert in modern Jewish history, explores the imprint left by the Russian Jewish past on American Jews starting from the turn of the twentieth century, considering literature ranging from immigrant novels to Fiddler on the Roof. In Russia, he finds nostalgia in turn-of-the-century East European Jewry itself, in novels contrasting Jewish life in acculturated Odessa with the more traditional shtetls. The book closes with a provocative call for a greater awareness regarding how the Holocaust has influenced scholarship produced since the Shoah.