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Author:

Senderovich, Sasha, author.

Title:

How the Soviet Jew was made / Sasha Senderovich.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Jews in popular culture--Soviet Union.
Jews in literature.
Jews in motion pictures.
Russian literature--Jewish authors--20th century.
Yiddish literature--Soviet Union.
Jews--Soviet Union--History.
Wandering Jew in literature.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Jews.
Jews in literature.
Jews in motion pictures.
Jews in popular culture.
Russian literature--Jewish authors.
Wandering Jew in literature.
Yiddish literature.
Soviet Union.
Jews in popular culture--Soviet Union.
Jews in literature.
Jews in motion pictures.
Russian literature--History and criticism.--20th century--History and criticism.
Yiddish literature--Soviet Union--History and criticism.
Jews--Soviet Union--History.
Wandering Jew in literature.
1900-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Dispersion of the Pale -- Haunted by pogroms: David Bergelson's Judgment -- Salvaged fragments: Moyshe Kulbak's The Zelmenyaners -- The edge of the world: narratives of non-arrival in Birobidzhan -- Back in the USSR: the Wandering Jew on the Soviet screen -- The Soviet Jew as a trickster: Isaac Babel and Hershele Ostropoler -- Epilogue: Returns to the shtetl.

Summary:

"In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0674238192
9780674238190

LCCN:

2021048963

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)