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Author Senderovich, Sasha, author.

Title How the Soviet Jew was made / Sasha Senderovich
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations, maps
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's "Hershele cycle" -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 6, 2022)
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
Jews
Jews in literature
Jews in motion pictures
Jews in popular culture
Russian literature -- Jewish authors
Wandering Jew in literature
Yiddish literature
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0674275748
9780674275744
9780674275751
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