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A contemporary evaluation of Bergelson and his works, examining Yiddish literature, Jewish culture, and modernism.
David Bergelson (1884—1952) emerged as a major literary figure who wrote in Yiddish before WWI. He was one of the founders of the Kiev Kultur-Lige, and his work was at the center of the Yiddish-speaking world of the time. He was well known for creating characters who often felt the painful after-effects of the past and the clumsiness...
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A critical look at the later work of the Russian Jewish author in the Soviet Union and its significance to Russian and Jewish history.
In Der Nister's Soviet Years, author Mikhail Krutikov focuses on the second half of the dramatic writing career of Soviet Yiddish writer Der Nister, pen name of Pinhas Kahanovich (1884—1950). Krutikov follows Der Nister's painful but ultimately successful literary transformation from his symbolist roots to social...
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Jews, Race, and the Politics of Difference explores how Russian Jewish writers and political activists such as Vladimir Jabotinsky turned to "race" as an operational concept in the late imperial politics of the Russian Empire.
Building on the latest scholarship on racial thinking and Jewish identities, Marina Mogilner shows how Jewish anthropologists, ethnographers, writers, lawyers, and political activists in late imperial Russia sought to construct...
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