Title Nostalgia for a foreign land : studies in Russian-language literature in Israel / Roman Katsman

Published Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy Contents Dina Rubina: a portrait of the artist as a messiah and a pirate. Introduction ; Carnival and sincerity ; Migration and neoindigeneity ; Messiahs, mothers, and orphans ; Victims and heroes ; From trauma to the real ; Origins and copies ; Fugitives, nomads, and pirates ; The metaphysical leap -- Nekod Singer in Russian and Hebrew: neoeclecticism and beyond. A noble man of our times -- The Jerusalem trilogy of Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis. Ierusalimsky dvorianin (A noble man of Jerusalem, 1997): an abortive gesture of violence ; I/e_rus.olim (2004): history, sacrifice, and network ; (preemptive revenge, 2006[al2]): the other's heroism -- Mikhail Yudson's Lestnitsa na shkaf (The ladder to the cabinet): the new language of metaphysics ; A ladder to the neoindigeneity -- Afterword Summary This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the "big wave" of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media, and some of them are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis Notes In English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Rubina, Dina -- Criticism and interpretation Zinger, Nekod -- Criticism and interpretation Mikhaĭlichenko, Elizaveta -- Criticism and interpretation Nesis, I︠U︡riĭ -- Criticism and interpretation I︠U︡dson, Mikhail -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Mikhaĭlichenko, Elizaveta fast Rubina, Dina fast Zinger, Nekod fast Subject Russian literature -- Israel -- 20th century -- History and criticism Russian literature -- Israel -- 21st century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. Russian literature Israel Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2016041184 ISBN 9781618115294 1618115294

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