In a maelstrom [electronic resource] : the history of Russian- Jewish prose (1860-1940) / by Zsuzsa Hetényi.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, c2 008.Description: xv, 316 p. ; 24 cmUniform titles: - Ãrvényben. English
"In association with The European Jewish Publication Society"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and index.
The concept of Russian-Jewish literature and its ambiguities -- One literature, in various languages -- Scattered attempts at definition -- Jewish literature in another language -- The three mother tongues of R ussian Jewry -- The concept of Russian-Jewish literature and Jewish lit erature in another language -- Religion, nation, culture -- The history of Russian-Jewish prose (1860-1940) -- "Turbulent times" : the utopia of assimilation -- The Jewish haskala and Russian reforms : the start o f acculturation -- Periodization of Russian-Jewish literature -- Russia n-Jewish periodicals (1860-1934) -- The beginning of Russian-Jewish lit erature (before 1860) -- Osip Rabinovich -- Lev Levanda -- Grigorii Bog rov -- Yakov Rombro -- "In a Maelstrom" : after the pogroms -- The pogr oms as a watershed -- Zionism, Socialism, emigration? -- Mordekhai Ben- Ami -- Naumov-Kogan -- Sergei Yaroshevskyy -- "At a crossroads" : choos ing paths -- Organizations of Jewish culture -- Semion An-Sky -- Aleksa ndr Kipen -- David Aizman -- Semyon Yushkevich -- Pogrom in literature : strategies between the documentarian and the emotional approach -- "M otherland" and "cemetary" : climax and endgame -- The issue of "Jewish revolutionaries" -- "De-Judaization" and "Yiddishization" -- "There are Jews but there is no Jewish question" -- Isaac Babel -- Lev Lunts -- A ndrei Sobol -- Semyon Hekht -- Mikhail Kozakov -- Vladimir Jabotinsky - - A look forward : Friedrich Gorenstein -- A pattern of narration in Je wish assimilation iterature. The child's eye view : Isaac Babel in a Ru ssian-Jewish, American and European literary context : a comparative co nclusion -- "Childhood. At Grandmother's" -- Catalogue and images, imag es and parataxis, parataxis and tolerance -- "The story of my dovecot" -- Michael Gold and Isaac Babel -- Henry Roth and Isaac Babel -- Overst atement, exaggeration--fantasy--creativity ("First love" and "In the ba sement") -- Summary.
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