How the Soviet Jew was made

How the Soviet Jew was made

Sasha Senderovich

Book - 2022

"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"--

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Subjects
1900-1999
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.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Jews.
Jews in popular culture.
Russian literature > Jewish authors.
Yiddish literature.
Russian literature > Jewish authors > 20th century > History and criticism.
Yiddish literature > Soviet Union > History and criticism.
Soviet Union.
History.
Genres
History
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Sasha Senderovich (author)
Physical Description
352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780674238190
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction: Dispersion of the Pale
  • 1. Haunted by Pogroms: David Bergelson's Judgment
  • 2. Salvaged Fragments: Moyshe Kulbak's The Zelmenyaners
  • 3. The Edge of the World: Narratives of Non-Arrival in Birobidzhan
  • 4. Back in the USSR: The Wandering Jew on the Soviet Screen
  • 5. The Soviet Jew as a Trickster: Isaac Babel and Hershele Ostropoler
  • Epilogue: Returns to the Shtetl
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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