Title Music from a speeding train : Jewish literature in post-revolution Russia / Harriet Murav

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 399 pages) Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. Contents The stillbirth of revolution -- Socialist construction, the Luftmentsh, and the new Jew -- Fighting the great patriotic war -- In mourning : responding to the destruction of the Jews -- Yeder zeyger a yortsayt : the past as memory in postwar literature -- Jewish spaces and retro-shtetls -- Translating empire -- Afterwards Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-394) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Russian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Yiddish literature -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism Yiddish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish. Russian literature Russian literature -- Jewish authors Yiddish literature Soviet Union Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804779043 080477904X

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