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  • As the Dust of the Earth

    The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    An estimated forty thousand Jews were murdered during the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1922. As the Dust of the Earth examines the Yiddish and Russian literary response to the violence (pogroms) and the relief effort, exploring both the poetry of catastrophe and the documentation of catastrophe and care.Brilliantly weaving together narrative fiction, poetry, memoirs, newspaper articles, and ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Music from a Speeding Train

    Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language authors in the same literary universe—one in which modernism, revolution, socialist realism, violence, and catastrophe join traditional Jewish texts to provide the framework for literary creativity. These ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • David Bergelson's Strange New World

    Untimeliness and Futurity

    by Harriet Murav ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russia's Legal Fictions

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.The conflict between the Russian writer and the law is a well-known feature of Russian literary life ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • David Bergelson's Strange New World

    Untimeliness and Futurity

    by Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Jews in Eastern Europe
    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 of bodies stumbling through the actions of daily life as their ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • In the Shadow of the Holocaust

    Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union

    Edited by Sasha Senderovich, Harriet Murav ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    A first-of-its kind collection of short stories that provides an underappreciated perspective on the Holocaust, as it was experienced and remembered in the former Soviet Union.A death camp survivor asks a local woman to write down in Russian his story, which he conveys in Yiddish. The Jewish population of Kyiv makes a pilgrimage to the site of a massacre on its anniversary. A single teacup becomes ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Modern Jewish Canon

    A Journey Through Language and Culture

    by Ruth R. Wisse ...
    What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish Canon. Wisse takes us on an exhilarating journey through language and culture, penetrating the complexities of Jewish life as they are expressed in the greatest Jewish novels of the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Jewish Persona in the European Imagination

    A Case of Russian Literature

    by Leonid Livak ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    This book proposes that the idea of the Jews in European cultures has little to do with actual Jews, but rather is derived from the conception of Jews as Christianity's paradigmatic Other, eternally reenacting their morally ambiguous New Testament role as the Christ-bearing and -killing chosen people of God. Through new readings of canonical Russian literary texts by Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, ... Read more

    $82.49 CAD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction

    by David Gantt Gurley ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?

    On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy

    Edited by Jacob Golomb, Robert S. Wistrich ...
    An examination of the association between the influential and controversial philosopher's ideas and fascistic beliefs.Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Friedrich Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Übermensch endowed with exceptional mental qualities. What can such a thinker have in common with the fascistic manipulation of the masses for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nietzsche Made Simple: Flash

    by Roy Jackson ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Nietzsche Made Simple is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to Nietzsche. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all his ideas, from the Superman to the Will to Power. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD