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In a maelstrom : the history of Russian-Jewish prose (1860-1940) /

A concise history of Russian-Jewish literature, with special attention to the prose works. Russian-Jewish literature is discussed in four periods, showing what led to the turning points (1881-82, 1897, 1917). Hetényi demonstrates why the selected epoch (1860-1940) represents a separate strand outsi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hetényi, Zsuzsa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hungarian
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 Russian Jewry
  • The concept of Russian-Jewish literature and Jewish literature 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 of acculturation
  • Periodization of Russian-Jewish literature
  • Russian-Jewish periodicals (1860-1934)
  • The beginning of Russian-Jewish literature (before 1860)
  • Osip Rabinovich
  • Lev Levanda
  • Grigorii Bogrov
  • Yakov Rombro
  • "In a Maelstrom" : after the pogroms
  • The pogroms as a watershed
  • Zionism, Socialism, emigration?
  • Mordekhai Ben-Ami
  • Naumov-Kogan
  • Sergei Yaroshevskyy
  • "At a crossroads" : choosing paths
  • Organizations of Jewish culture
  • Semion An-Sky
  • Aleksandr Kipen
  • David Aizman
  • Semyon Yushkevich
  • Pogrom in literature : strategies between the documentarian and the emotional approach
  • "Motherland" and "cemetery" : 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
  • Andrei Sobol
  • Semyon Hekht
  • Mikhail Kozakov
  • Vladimir Jabotinsky
  • A look forward : Friedrich Gorenstein
  • A pattern of narration in Jewish assimilation literature. The child's eye view : Isaac Babel in a Russian-Jewish, American and European literary context : a comparative conclusion
  • "Childhood. At Grandmother's"
  • Catalogue and images, images and parataxis, parataxis and tolerance
  • "The story of my dovecot"
  • Michael Gold and Isaac Babel
  • Henry Roth and Isaac Babel
  • Overstatement, exaggeration--fantasy--creativity ("First love" and "In the basement")
  • Summary.