Music from a speeding train
Subtitle: Jewish literature in post-revolution Russia
By: Harriet Murav
Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture; Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780804774437
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: History and criticism; Jewish authors; Yiddish literature; Russian literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The stillbirth of revolution; title: Socialist construction, the Luftmentsh, and the new Jew; title: Fighting the great patriotic war; title: In mourning : responding to the destruction of the Jews; title: Yeder zeyger a yortsayt : the past as memory in postwar literature; title: Jewish spaces and retro-shtetls; title: Translating empire; title: Afterwards.