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An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry (Two-volume set)
2007 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Eastern European Studies Interview with Maxim Shrayer. |
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Description: For over two hundred years, a distinctive Jewish-Russian culture has been part of the ferment and flourishing of world culture. Edited by a leading authority on Jewish-Russian literature, this magnificent anthology introduces readers for the first time to the full range of the Jewish-Russian literary canon, with stories and excerpts from novels, essays, memoirs, and poems by more than 130 Jewish writers who worked in the Russian language, both in Russia and in the great emigrations. The selections were chosen both for their literary quality and because they illuminate questions of Jewish history, status, and identity. Each author is extensively profiled.
With a comprehensive general introduction, chronological introductions, and headnotes by the editor, historical surveys by John D. Klier of University College, London, and extensive bibliographies, this anthology provides an encyclopedic history of Jewish-Russian culture.
Selected Contents:
VOLUME 1: 1801-1953
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, Dates, and Notes
Note on How to Use This Anthology
Editor's General Introduction: Toward a Canon of Jewish-Russian Literature, Maxim D. Shrayer
Jewish-Russian Literature: A Selected Bibliography
The Beginning
Leyba Nevakhovich (1776-1831)
Gaining a Voice: 1840-1881
Leon Mandelstam (1819-1889)
Afanasy Fet (1820-1890)
Ruvim Kulisher (1828-1896)
Osip Rabinovich (1817-1869)
Lev Levanda (1835-1888)
Grigory Bogrov (1825-1885)
First Flowering: 1881-1902
Rashel Khin (1861-1928)
Semyon Nadson (1862-1887)
Nikolay Minsky (1855-1937)
Simon Frug (1860-1916)
Ben-Ami (1854-1932)
Avraam-Uria Kovner (1842-1909)
On the Eve: 1902-1917
David Aizman (1869-1922)
Semyon Yushkevich (1868-1927)
Dmitri Tsenzor (1877-1947)
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940)
Leyb Jaffe (1878-1948)
Sasha Cherny (1880-1932)
Ossip Dymow (1878-1959)
S. An-sky (1863-1920)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
Rahel (1890-1931)
Samuil Marshak (1887-1964)
Sofia Parnok (1885-1933)
Revolution and Betrayal: 1917-1939
Leonid Kannegiser (1896-1918)
Mikhail Gershenzon (1869-1925)
Elisheva (1888-1949)
Valentin Parnakh (1891-1951)
Ilya Selvinsky (1899-1968)
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938)
Vladimir Lidin (1894-1979)
Lev Lunts (1901-1924)
Veniamin Kaverin (1902-1989)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
Andrey Sobol (1888-1926)
Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
Matvey Royzman (1896-1973)
Isaac Babel (1894-1940)
Iosif Utkin (1903-1944)
Elizaveta Polonskaya (1890-1969)
Yury Libedinsky (1898-1959)
Vera Inber (1890-1972)
Mark Tarlovsky (1902-1952)
Mikhail Kozakov (1897-1954)
Viktor Fink (1888-1973)
Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972)
Eduard Bagritsky (1895-1934)
Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Evgeny Petrov (1903-1942)
Mark Egart (1901-1956)
Arkady Shteynberg (1907-1984)
Emigrations: 1917-1967
Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939)
Mark Aldanov (1886-1957)
Evgeny Shklyar (1894-1942)
Dovid Knut (1900-1955)
Don-Aminado (1888-1957)
Raisa Blokh (1899-1943)
Anna Prismanova (1892-1960)
Sofia Dubnova-Erlich (1885-1986)
Sofia Pregel (1894-1972)
Yuly Margolin (1900-1971)
Andrey Sedykh (1902-1994)
War and Terror: 1939-1953
Boris Yampolsky (1912-1972)
Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
Vassily Grossman (1905-1964)
Margarita Aliger (1915-1992)
Lev Ozerov (1914-1996)
Pavel Antokolsky (1896-1978)
Yury German (1910-1967)
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Volume I
Outline of Jewish-Russian History Part I, 1772-1953 John D. Klier
The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1772-1953: A Selected Bibliography
Index of Translators
Index of Authors
About the Editor
VOLUME 2: 1953-2001
Note on Transliteration, Spelling of Names, and Dates
Note on How to Use This Anthology
The Thaw: 1953-1964
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
Vassily Grossman (1905-1964)
Naum Korzhavin (b. 1925)
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)
Yuly Daniel (1925-1988)
Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913-1962)
Late Soviet Empire: 1964-1991
Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980)
Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999)
Aleksandr Aronov (1934-2001)
Vassily Aksyonov (b.1932)
Aleksandr Galich (1919-1977)
Yan Satunovsky (1913-1982)
Aleksandr Kushner (b. 1936)
Evgeny Gabrilovich (1899-1993)
Yulia Neyman (1907-1994)
Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003)
Yury Karabchievsky (1938-1992)
Inna Lisnyanskaya (b. 1928)
Boris Slutsky (1919-1986)
Iuliu Edlis (b. 1929)
Anatoly Rybakov (1911-1998)
Lev Ginzburg (1921-1980)
Yury Trifonov (1925-1981)
Leonid Tsypkin (1926-1982)
Grigory Kanovich (b. 1929)
Yuri Levitansky (1922-1996)
Aleksandr Mezhirov (b. 1923)
Evgeny Reyn (b. 1935)
Sara Pogreb (b. 1921)
Izrail Metter (1909-1996)
Mikhail Sinelnikov (b. 1946)
Bella Ulanovskaya (1943-2005)
Vladimir Britanishsky (b. 1933)
The Jewish Exodus: 1967-2001
Lev Mak (b. 1937)
Henri Volohonsky (b. 1936)
Arkady Lvov (b. 1927)
Ilia Bokstein (1937-1999)
David Markish (b. 1938)
Michail Grobman (b. 1939)
Boris Khazanov (b. 1928)
Yuri Kolker (b. 1947)
Felix Roziner (1936-1997)
Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990)
Michael B. Kreps (1940-1994)
Philip Isaac Berman (b. 1936)
Ruth Zernova (1919-2004)
David Shrayer-Petrov (b. 1936)
Igor Mikhalevich-Kaplan (b. 1943)
Marina Temkina (b. 1948)
Friedrich Gorenstein (1932-2002)
Maxim D. Shrayer (b. 1967)
In Post-Soviet Times: 1991-2001
Vladimir Gandelsman (b. 1948)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (b. 1943)
Anatoly Nayman (b. 1936)
Ian Probstein (b. 1953)
Aleksandr Melikhov (b. 1947)
Mikhail Zhvanetsky (b. 1934)
Tatyana Voltskaya (b. 1960)
Michail Bezrodnyj (b. 1957)
Eduard Shulman (b. 1936)
Anna Gorenko (1972-1999)
Dina Rubina (b. 1953)
Ilya Kutik (b. 1960)
Yuri Leving (b. 1975)
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Volume 2
Outline of Jewish-Russian History, Part II, 1954-2001 John D. Klier
The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1954-2001: A Selected Bibliography
Index of Translators
Index of Authors
Index of Names, Works, and Subjects
About the Editor
Comment(s): "Maxim D. Shrayer's extraordinary presentation of Jewish writing in Russian, from the beginnings of secular Jewish writing in Imperial Russia to today's worldwide Jewish-Russian Diaspora, is sovereign in its selection. ... Every major writer known or considered, condemned or praised as Jewish is included. The translations are more than readable: they are literary in the best sense as they present a portrait of the cultural legacy and conflicted identity of the Jews of Russia, who ... are remaking the culture and literature of the next wave of the Jewish Diaspora. A must for every school or Temple, academic or major public library!" -- Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University
"Maxim Shrayer's massive two-volume anthology is an impressive achievement, admirably researched and wide-ranging. ... It will be a boon to those interested in Russian literature, in Jewish-Russian culture, and in dual cultural identity." -- Victor Erlich, Emeritus, Yale University
Review(s): This massive two-volume work is clearly a labour of love-on the part of the editor and the numerous translators who worked on the project. It is encyclopaedic in scope, gathering together and presenting information on scores of writers. One of the important services provided by this collection is that it makes easily available for the first time in English texts and authors that deserve to be better known. This is an important anthology that will no doubt stimulate further research into these fields. Full bibliographical information and indexing make the work easy to use as a resource book or a teaching text. It is a splendid achievement that provides a panorama of Russian-Jewish writing and encourages scholarship to delve further into questions of cultural and national identity. Canadian Slavonic Papers
This two-volume anthology of Jewish Russian literature is the most significant publication to date to deal with the contributions of Jewish writers to Russian literature and poetry from the 19th to the late 20th centuries. And what a massive, imposing work it is! ... Essential. All readers; all levels. Choice, Vol.44, No.11
...the parts of An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature seem as great as the whole, are greater--they are, and it is, a wonder. Forward
...an impressive body of high-quality translations in poetry and prose, with many texts appearing in English for the first time. ... Shrayer supplies a solid scholarly and critical apparatus that contextualizes the included authors and texts, placing them within the larger problematics of Russian-Jewish writing. Besides its obvious appeal to the general reader, the anthology represents a valuable pedagogical tool for Russian, Jewish, and comparative literary and cultural studies. The Russian Review
Delve into this magnificent, sweeping two-volume anthology of Jewish-Russian literature. ... Together, these two volumes should be of vast assistance to scholars and students of Russian and Eastern European studies, Jewish studies, and comparative literature. Yet, they are equally appealing to the lay reader. Like a treasure map, the Anthology entices the reader to explore more intensively the panoply of Jewish Russian literature. Jewish Book World
I would like to commend the editor not only for the remarkable quality of presentation of the literary translations, but also for a thoroughly researched study of Jewish literature and culture in its Russian context. The anthology would be a valuable companion to both academic and general readers who have a love of Jewish literature, or indeed to anyone interested in Russian literature's masterpieces created by Jews. East European Jewish Affairs
This two-volume anthology is an essential reference work for scholars in a number of fields, including Russian literature, Russian and Eastern European history, and Jewish Studies. ... This anthology stands out not only for the comprehensive historical and biographical notes it provides but also for the quality of its translations. Slavic and East European Journal
...there is a lot of good literature to read since the translations are of high quality. ...The volume can be useful for students, teachers, and even scholars. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
    
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