In a maelstrom
Subtitle: the history of Russian-Jewish prose (1860-1940)
By: by Zsuzsa Hetényi.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789637326912
Subjects: Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Russian prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Russian prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Work titles: Örvényben.
Notes: "In association with The European Jewish Publication Society"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept of Russian-Jewish literature and its ambiguities; title: One literature, in various languages; title: Scattered attempts at definition; title: Jewish literature in another language; title: The three mother tongues of Russian Jewry; title: The concept of Russian-Jewish literature and Jewish literature in another language; title: Religion, nation, culture; title: The history of Russian-Jewish prose (1860-1940); title: "Turbulent times" : the utopia of assimilation; title: The Jewish haskala and Russian reforms : the start of acculturation; title: Periodization of Russian-Jewish literature; title: Russian-Jewish periodicals (1860-1934); title: The beginning of Russian-Jewish literature (before 1860); title: Osip Rabinovich; title: Lev Levanda; title: Grigorii Bogrov; title: Yakov Rombro; title: "In a Maelstrom" : after the pogroms; title: The pogroms as a watershed; title: Zionism, Socialism, emigration?; title: Mordekhai Ben-Ami; title: Naumov-Kogan; title: Sergei Yaroshevskyy; title: "At a crossroads" : choosing paths; title: Organizations of Jewish culture; title: Semion An-Sky; title: Aleksandr Kipen; title: David Aizman; title: Semyon Yushkevich; title: Pogrom in literature : strategies between the documentarian and the emotional approach; title: "Motherland" and "cemetary" : climax and endgame; title: The issue of "Jewish revolutionaries"; title: "De-Judaization" and "Yiddishization"; title: "There are Jews but there is no Jewish question"; title: Isaac Babel; title: Lev Lunts; title: Andrei Sobol; title: Semyon Hekht; title: Mikhail Kozakov; title: Vladimir Jabotinsky; title: A look forward : Friedrich Gorenstein; title: A pattern of narration in Jewish assimilation iterature. The child's eye view : Isaac Babel in a Russian-Jewish, American and European literary context : a comparative conclusion; title: "Childhood. At Grandmother's"; title: Catalogue and images, images and parataxis, parataxis and tolerance; title: "The story of my dovecot"; title: Michael Gold and Isaac Babel; title: Henry Roth and Isaac Babel; title: Overstatement, exaggeration; title: fantasy; title: creativity ("First love" and "In the basement"); title: Summary.