Voices of Jewish-Russian Literature

An Anthology
Herausgeber: Shrayer, Maxim D

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This definitive and comprehensive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people¿s history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 1036
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 71mm
• Gewicht: 1558g
• ISBN-13: 9781618117922
• ISBN-10: 1618117920
• Artikelnr.: 51311561

Autorenporträt

Maxim D. Shrayer, a bilingual author, scholar and translator, is Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies at Boston College and Director of the Project on Russian & Eurasian Jewry at Harvard¿s Davis Center. Born in Moscow in 1967 to a writer¿s family, Shrayer emigrated to the United States in 1987. He has authored and edited fifteen books in English and Russian, among them the internationally acclaimed memoirs Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story and Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration, the story collection  Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, and the Holocaust study I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, and the travelogue With or Without You: The Prospect for Jews in Today¿s Russia. Shrayer is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. Visit Shrayer¿s website at www.shrayer.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates Note on How to Use This Book General Introduction: The Legacy of Jewish-Russian Literature, by Maxim D. Shrayer Early Voices: 1800s-1850s Editor
s Introduction Leiba Nevakhovich (1776-1831) from Lament of the Daughter of Judah (1803) Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889)
The People
(1840) Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896) From An Answer to the Slav (1849; pub. 1911) Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869) From The Penal Recruit (1859) Seething Times: 1860s-1880s Editor
s Introduction Lev Levanda (1835-1888) From Seething Times (1860s; pub. 1871-73) Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885)
Childhood Sufferings
from Notes of a Jew  (1863; pub. 1871-73) Rakhel Khin (1861-1928) From The Misfit (1881) Semyon Nadson (1862-1887) From
The Woman
(1883)    
I grew up shunning you, O most degraded nation
(1885) On the Eve: 1890s-1910s Editor
s Introduction Ben-Ami (1854
1932) Preface to Collected Stories and Sketches (1898) David Aizman (1869-1922)
The Countrymen
(1902) Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927) From The Jews (1903) Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
In Memory of Herzl
(1904) Sasha Cherny (1880-1932)
Judeophobes
(1909) S. An-sky (1863-1920)
The Book
(1910) Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)
Palestine
(1916) Sofia Parnok (1885-1933)
My anguish does the Lord not heed
(1913-22)    
Hagar
(1913-22)    
Not for safekeeping for awhile
(1913-22) Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918)
A Jewish Wedding
(1916)    
Regimental Inspection
(1917) Revolution and Emigration: 1920s-1930s Editor
s Introduction Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989)
Shields (and Candles)
(1922) Lev Lunts (1901-1924)
Native Land
(1922) Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
Not my mother, but a Tula peasant woman
(1917; 1922)    
In Moscow I was born. I never
(1923) Andrey Sobol (1888-1926)
The Count
(1922-23) Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
The Teacher's Prophecy Concerning the Destinies of the Tribe of Judah
from The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples (1922) Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984) From Zoo, or Letters Not about Love (1923) Matvey Royzman (1896-1973)
Kol Nidrei
(1923) Mark Aldanov (1886-1957)
The Assassination of Uritsky
(1923) Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Judaic Chaos
from Noise of Time (1925)    
One Alexander Herzovich
(1931)    
Say, desert geometer, shaper
(1933) Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942)
Where
s Home?
(1925) Dovid Knut (1900-1955)
I, Dovid-Ari Ben Meir
(1925)    
A Kishinev Burial
(1929)    
The Land of Israel
(1938) Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
The Rabbi
s Son
(1925)    
Awakening
(1931) Vera Inber (1890-1972)
The Nightingale and the Rose
(1925) Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969)
Encounter
(1927) Viktor Fink (1888-1973)
The Preachers
and
The New Culture
from Jews on the Land (1929) Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972)
R
(1929) Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934)
Origin
(1930)    From February (1934) Mark Egart (1901-1956) From Scorched Land (1932) Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942)
The Prodigal Son Returns Home
(1930) by Ilf    From The Little Golden Calf (1931) by Ilf and Petrov Raisa Blokh (1899-1943?)
A snatch of speech came floating on the air
(1932)    
Remember, father would stand
(1933) War and Shoah: 1940s Editor
s Introduction Boris Yampolsky (1921-1972)
Mr. Dykhes and Others
   from Country Fair (ca. 1940) Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
To the Jews
(1941)
Six Poems
(The January 1945 Novy mir cycle) Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968)
I Saw It
;
Kerch
(1942) Sofia Sofia Dubnova-Erlikh (1885-1986) Two Wartime Essays:
Shtetl
(1943);    
Scorched Hearth
(1944) Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
The Hell of Treblinkä (1944) Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978)
Death Camp
(1945) Yury German (1910-1967) from Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Corps (1949) Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
In the Lowlands
(1944)    
Odessä (1944)    From Doctor Zhivago (1946-[1955]; pub. 1957) The Thaw, 1950s-1960s Editor
s Introduction Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
These Abrám, Isák and Yákov
(1953; pub. 1989)    
Of the Jews
(1952-56; pub. 1961)    
Horses in the Ocean
(1956)    
Prodigal Son
(1956)    
Puny Jewish children
(1957-58; pub. 1989) Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) From Life and Fate (1960; pub. 1980) Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Jewish graveyard near Leningrad
(1958; pub. 1965)    
I'm not asking death for immortality
(ca. 1961; pub. 1992) Vladimir Britanishsky (1933-2015)
A German Girl
(1957-58; pub. 1993) Yuly Daniel (1925-1988) From This Is Moscow Speaking (1961) Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962)
Enemies
(1962) Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982)
Girls with golden eyes..." (1960; pub. 1990s)    
You
re mistaken
(1961; pub. 1990s)    
It
s the end of our nation
(1962; pub. 1990s)    
My Slavic language is Russian
(1963; pub. 1990s)    
I
m Moyshe from Berdichev
(1963; pub. 1990s)    
Eve, a civilized Jewess
(1964; pub. 1990s) Late Soviet Empire and Collapse: 1960s-1990s Editor
s Introduction Vassily Aksyonov (1932-2009)
Victory: A Story with Exaggerations
(1965) Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936)
When that teacher in Poland, so as not
(1966)    
Letters
(1966) Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999)
In Memory of My Father
(1962; pub. 1999)    
Psalm 3
(1965-66; pub. 1979)    
Psalm 132 (133)
(1965-66; pub. 1988)    
Psalm 136 (137)
(1965-66; pub. 1993)    
Psalm 150
(1965-66; pub. 1993)    
A Pole Rode
(1985; pub. 1992) Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003)
Khaim
(1973; pub. 1979) Yuri Karabchievsky (1938-1992) From Life of Aleksandr Zilber (1974-75) Inna Lisnianskaia (1928-2014)
My father, a military doctor
(1975; pub. 1980)    
An Incident
(1981; pub. 1983) Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
Let
s cross out the Pale
(1970s; pub. 1985)    
The rabbis came down to the valley
(before 1977; pub. 1989) Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998) From Heavy Sand (1975-77; pub. 1978) Yuri Trifonov (1925-1981)
A Visit with Marc Chagall
(1980) from The Overturned House Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980) From Only My Heart Was Broken (1980) Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935)
For the Last Time
(1987) Sara Pogreb (b. 1921)
I
m going to see my grandparents. The cart
(1986)    
I'm bidding farewell to the slush
.
(1989)    Izrail Metter (1909-1996) From Pedigree (1980s) Aleksandr Mezhirov (1923-2009) From Blizzard (1986-2000) Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005) A Journey to Kashgar (1973-1989) Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947) From The Confession of a Jew (1993) Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943)
Genele the Purse Lady
(1993) The Jewish Exodus: 1970s-1990s Editor
s Introduction Lev Mak (b. 1937 [1939]
A Farewell to Russiä (1974)    
August in Odessä (1974) Boris Khazanov (b. 1928) From The King
s Hour (1968-69; pub. 1976; 1980) Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999)
Afánta-Utómä (
Fantasia-Judaicä) from Glints of the Wave (late 1960s-1970s; pub. 1978) David Markish (b. 1938)
The Appearance of Prophet Elijah, 1714
from The Jesters (1981-82) Michael Kreps (1940-1994)
Cat with a Yellow Star
(1980s)    
Call of the Ancestors
(1980s) Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936)
Sarah and Rooster
(1988) Ruth Zernova (1919-2004)
All Vows
(1988) David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936)
Chagall
s Self-Portrait with Wife
(1975; pub. 1990)    
My Slavic Soul
(1975; pub. 1990)    
Villa Borghese
(1987-90)    
Hände Hoch!
(1999) Marina Temkina (b. 1948)
1995: Happy New Year
(1995) Dina Rubina (b. 1953) From Here Comes the Messiah (1996) Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002)
The Arrest of an Antisemite
(1998) Anna Gorenko (1972-1999)
The Golem
(1997)    
Translating from the European
(1999) An Outline of Jewish-Russian History by John D. Klier Bibliography of Primary Sources Index of Authors Index of Translators Index of Names, Places and Works About the Editor