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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 6, 2022)