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Record Nr.

UNINA9910984665503321

Autore

Smola Klavdia

Titolo

Reinventing Tradition : Russian-Jewish Literature Between Soviet Underground and Post-Soviet Deconstruction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brighton : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9798887191911

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 pages)

Collana

Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy Series

Disciplina

891.709/8924

Soggetti

Russian literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Literary criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1.Introduction -- 2. Research Approaches -- 3.Russian Jewish Literature as a Bicultural Phenomenon -- 4.Jewish Dissent of the Late Soviet Era: Underground, Exodus, Literature -- 5. Prose of Exodus -- 6. Axes of Nonconformist Jewish Literature -- 7. Negated Dichotomies: The Failed Utopia of Aliyah -- 8. Time and Space Structures in Nonconformist Jewish Literature -- 9. Reinvention of Yiddish Storytelling -- 10. Aftermath and Impact of Jewish Counter-Culture -- 11. Russian Jewish Literature after Communism -- 12. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

Klavdia Smola explores how the Jewish tradition was reinvented in Russian Jewish literature after a long period of assimilation, the Holocaust and decades of Communism. The process of reinventing the tradition began in the counter-culture of Jewish dissidents, in the midst of the late-Soviet underground of the 1960-1970s, and it continues to the present day.